Deck The Halls Raise A Glass

	  		E – A – E – B – E 

E                                     A          E      B      E 
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la! 
E                            A        E      B      E 
'Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la! 
B               E           G#m       C#m    F#   B 
Don we now our gay apparel, Fa la la la la la la la! 
E                                 A           E    B    E 
Troll the ancient Yuletide carol, Fa la la la la la la la! 

Tussenstuk 
E – A - E - A – E – A – E – B - E 

E         A          E 
She said goodbye on Christmas day 
E                       B 
With a richer man she ran away 
       E         A             E 
In the back of a sleigh in his arms she lay 
E                  B         E 
She’s the bitch of Christmas day 

E               A       E 
With a broken heart on Christmas day 
E                   B 
A man can sing or a man can pray 
E            A          E 
In an empty house no-one will stay 
E               B       E 
I’m alone on Christmas day 

A – E – B – E - C#m 

         A               E 
Through the snow and the hail 
         B       E           C#m 
I will find me a way to the mayor 
        A        E 
By the light of a star 
         B           E         B 
as a friend with the jar and a song 

     A      B 
So raise a glass 
        E               A 
To the love that will pass 
      F#m                 B            E 
This Christmas drown the ghost of the past 

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E               A       E 
In the morning grey on boxing day 
E                         B 
The barman send me on my way 
E            A             E 
I smell like piss and a full ash tray 
E             B      E 
I am home on boxing day 

A – E – B – E - C#m 

            A            E 
Through the snow and the hail 
       B           E             C#m 
I went on when I met with a stranger 
    A          E           B            E          B 
Who came from afar from a friend with a jar and a song 

     A      B 
So raise a glass 
        E               A 
To the love that will pass 
      F#m                 B            E 
This Christmas drown the ghost of the past 

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           A            E 
I went to church on new year’s day 
          E             B 
For a priest to take my sins away 
    E               A           E         C#m 
He had some wine to share and a prayer to pray 
       E        B          E 
And we drank on new year’s day