Christmas At Dennys

	  		
Intro 

D G C D/F# Em C 
Verse 1:
 
D        G 
They got Christmas Muzak 
      C              G 
Piped in through the ceiling 
D/F#   Em 
And the refills of coffee 
    C          G 
Are always for free 
D       G 
And the waitress on graveyard 
        C           G 
And the surly night manager 
    Em                     C            D 
Are wishing that all of us losers would leave 
          Am 
There's a star on the sign 
       Em 
At the Texaco Station 
         Am 
Like the star long ago 
        C 
On that midnight clear 
     Am 
As I look all around 
         Em 
At these cold, empty faces 
D G       D/F#     Em        C        D 
I doubt that you'd find many wise men here
 


D       G 
And I'm dreaming about 
  C      G 
A silent night 
  C    G 
A Holy night 
     C             D 
When things were alright 
        G 
And I'm dreaming about 
       C               G 
How my life could have been 
   Em       Bm       Am 
If only, if only, if only 
    Am 
But somewhere down the road 
               C 
I gave up that fight 
      G 
Merry Christmas 
     D            C       G 
It's Christmas at Denny's tonight 


 
Verse 2:
D    G 
Once I had a home 
      C          G 
And a wife and a daughter 
      Em 
Had a company job 
        C            G 
Earning middle-class pay 
D    G 
Then Lisa got killed 
     C            G 
By a car near the schoolyard 
D/F#   Em 
And my wife started drinking 
        C                D 
Just to get through each day 
       Am                Em 
I will never forget that little red wagon 
Am                  C 
Turning to rust all alone in the rain 
    Am 
One morning I flagged down 
  Em 
A truck on the highway 
  G             Em         C          D 
I just couldn't bear to go back there again 


D       G 
And I'm dreaming about 
  C      G 
A silent night 
  C    G 
A Holy night 
     C             D 
When things were alright 
        G 
And I'm dreaming about 
       C               G 
How my life could have been 
   Em       Bm       Am 
If only, if only, if only 
      Am 
Well, it's not just the blind man 
              C 
Who loses his sight 
      G 
Merry Christmas 
     D            C       G 
It's Christmas at Denny's tonight 


Post-Chorus
C 
They say 
D                          C 
Life's made of cruel circumstance 
D                          Em 
Fate plays the tune and we dance 
Am 
Dance til we drop 
       Am 
In the dust and we're gone 
D 
And the world just goes on 

Verse 3:
D   G 
The cop at the counter 
         C        G 
He's the guardian angel 
D/F#  Em 
He    watches these orphans 
        C             G 
Through dark mirrored shades 
        G 
And the register rings 
       C          G 
Like a bell sadly tolling 
D/F#    Em 
For the fools we've become 
Em      C             D 
And the price that we paid 
        Am 
Oh when I was a boy 
  Em 
I believed in Christmas 
Am                C 
Miracle season to make a new start 
  Am                     Em 
I don't need no miracle, sweet baby Jesus 
     G       D/F# 
Just help me find 
             C          D 
Some kind of hope in my heart 


D       G 
And I'm dreaming about 
  C      G 
A silent night 
  C    G 
A Holy night 
     C             D 
When things were alright 
        G 
And I'm dreaming about 
       C               G 
How my life could have been 
   Em       Bm       Am 
If only, if only, if only 
    Am 
But I'll still be here 
              C 
At the morning's first light 
      G 
Merry Christmas 
     D            C       G 
It's Christmas at Denny's tonight 

      G 
Merry Christmas 
     D            C       G 
It's Christmas at Denny's tonight