Christmas Eve In St Johns chords by Christmas Songs

Chords with lyrics

Key: A augmentedA

(Amaj7Amaj7 can also be played as 002224)
(Aadd4 is x00220)
(the three consecutive Ds in the second verse are not mistaken)

 	🎄 Intro:
A augmentedA D MajorD F#m7F#m7 Add4

 	🎄 Verse 1:
     A augmentedA      Amaj7Amaj7   D MajorD    E MajorE
It's the night before Christmas, seven o'clock,
 D MajorD     E MajorE    D MajorD       E MajorE
A augmentedA rusty old dragger ties up at the dock;
   A augmentedA       Amaj7Amaj7      D MajorD      E MajorE
She's rigged out in lights from her stem to her stern,
  D MajorD        E MajorE     A augmentedA
To spend Christmas Eve in St. John's.

 	🎄 Verse 2:
    A augmentedA      Amaj7Amaj7 D MajorD     E MajorE
All the sailors are tired, lonely and bored,
 D MajorD      D MajorD      D MajorD        E MajorE
A augmentedA piece of dry land is what they're longing for;
     A augmentedA     Amaj7Amaj7  D MajorD      E MajorE
But their hearts are away on some foreign shore,
   D MajorD     E MajorE     A augmentedA
This Christmas Eve in St. John's.

 	🎄 Chorus:
B minorBm  E MajorE    B minorBm    E MajorE
Boas Festas, Feliz Navidad,
   D MajorD    E MajorE     D MajorD       E MajorE
In a faraway country a young girl is sad;
     A augmentedA      Amaj7Amaj7     B minorBm     E MajorE
It's the night before Christmas, she misses her dad,
     D MajorD     E MajorE     A augmentedA
Spending Christmas Eve in St. John's.

 	🎄 Verse 3:
     A augmentedA     Amaj7Amaj7       D MajorD     E MajorE
Like the Magi that travelled from the East long ago,
D MajorD     E MajorE     D MajorD        E MajorE
Up to the hilltop to mass they'd all go;
   A augmentedA    Amaj7Amaj7 D MajorD       E MajorE
Their Lady of Fatima waits for them there,
   D MajorD     E MajorE     A augmentedA
This Christmas Eve in St. John's.

 	🎄 Verse 4:
   A augmentedA      Amaj7Amaj7    D MajorD       E MajorE
They hear the old carols sung when they were young,
   D MajorD        E MajorE      D MajorD      E MajorE
They don't sound the same sung in this foreign tongue;
   A augmentedA     Amaj7Amaj7      D MajorD       E MajorE
Their hearts are warmed but their eyes tell the tale,
   D MajorD     E MajorE     A augmentedA
This Christmas Eve in St. John's.

 	🎄 Chorus:
B minorBm  E MajorE    B minorBm    E MajorE
Boas Festas, Feliz Navidad,
   D MajorD    E MajorE     D MajorD       E MajorE
In a faraway country a young girl is sad;
     A augmentedA      Amaj7Amaj7     B minorBm     E MajorE
It's the night before Christmas, she misses her dad,
     D MajorD     E MajorE     A augmentedA
Spending Christmas Eve in St. John's.

 	🎄 Verse 5:
A augmentedA       Amaj7Amaj7   D MajorD      E MajorE
Back to their ships the sailors all go,
D MajorD        E MajorE      D MajorD     E MajorE
To a crèche by a porthole and new fallen snow;
  A augmentedA     Amaj7Amaj7    D MajorD       E MajorE
And soon it's back to the fish they must go,
   D MajorD     E MajorE     A augmentedA
This Christmas Eve in St. John's.


B minorBm  E MajorE    B minorBm    E MajorE
Boas Festas, Feliz Navidad,
   D MajorD    E MajorE     D MajorD       E MajorE
In a faraway country a young girl is sad;
     A augmentedA      Amaj7Amaj7     B minorBm     E MajorE
It's the night before Christmas, she misses her dad,
     D MajorD     E MajorE     A augmentedA
Spending Christmas Eve in St. John's.

 	🎄 Outro:
     D MajorD     E MajorE     A augmentedA
Spending Christmas Eve in St. John’s