Christmas Eve Can Kill You chords by Mark Lanegan

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

🎄 Intro:
C F G C F C G
F G C F C F G


🎄 Verse 1:
    C                F                G                     C
The winter's flaking snow is brushing through the pine wood trees
  F                   C              G
I stuck my hands down deep inside my coat
  F                G               C                 F
I think of years ago and half remembered Christmas trees
    C                F                  G
And faces that still warm me with their glow

🎄 Verse 2:
    C              F              G               C
The cold and empty evening hangs around me like a ghost
  F            C                G
I listen to my footsteps in the snow
    F                G                   C                   F
The sound of one man walking through the snow can break your heart
    C                F                G
But stopping doesn't help, so on I'll go


🎄 Chorus:
    F                 C
And Christmas Eve can kill you
            Dm                G          C
When you're trying to hitch a ride to anywhere


🎄 Verse 3:
    C           F                     G              C
The icy air I'm breathing is all that keeps me on my feet
  F                   C              G
I feel like I've been walking all my life
  F                G                 C             F
A car goes running by, the man don't even turn his head
           C          F             G
Guess he's busy being Santa Claus tonight


🎄 Verse 4:
    C               F              G                  C
The saddest part of all is knowing if I switched with him
    F                   C             G
I'd leave him stumbling ragged by the road
    F                 G          C            F
I'd ride that highway to arms of my sweet family
       C                F            G
And forget about the stranger in the cold


🎄 Chorus:
    F                 C
And Christmas Eve can kill you
            Dm                G          C
When you're trying to hitch a ride to anywhere


🎄 Verse 5:
    C             F            G              C
And as I walk I'm singing to myself "O Silent Night"
F            C                G
Hoping I can save those other souls
    F                G                     C            F
Oh, God, forgive the man that drives right by the other man
     C           F               G
Have pity on the stranger in the cold


🎄 Chorus:
       F                 C
'Cause Christmas Eve can kill you
            Dm                G          C
When you're trying to hitch a ride to anywhere