Kentucky Homemade Christmas chords by Kenny Rogers

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Key: D MajorD

🎄 ❄ 🎅 Intro:

C majorC A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm

C majorC A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm


🎄 ❄ 🎅 Verse 1:
   C majorC
They shut down the mine last summer
   FF       C majorC
We're gettin' by on welfare
        A minorAm   C majorC
It's Christmas Eve I'm walkin' home
   FF      G+G
Not a dollar to my name
C majorC
Night is almost on me
 FF        C majorC
A augmentedA night I'm almost dreading
  FF           C majorC
No store bought gifts to open
        FF     G7G7    C majorC
But there'll be Christmas just the same

🎄 ❄ 🎅 Chorus:
      A minorAm   C majorC    FF        C majorC
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
   FF        C majorC         Dm7Dm7        G+G
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
      A minorAm   C majorC    FF        C majorC
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
          A minorAm    C majorC               A minorAm C majorC
Our fine and fancy homemade love God's precious gift from up above
                A minorAm   G+G       C majorC
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

🎄 ❄ 🎅 Verse 2:
C majorC
 There's a brand new Barlow knife
    FF      C majorC
with a shiny wooden handle
        A minorAm
Gleamin' in the window
FF     C majorC        G+G
 Down at Galen Johnson's store
  C majorC
My wide eyed little Billy Boy
  FF          C majorC
His face pressed to the window
  FF       C majorC
Too young for understandin'
FF     C majorC    G+G   C majorC
 what it means to be so poor

🎄 ❄ 🎅 Chorus:
      A minorAm   C majorC    FF        C majorC
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
   FF        C majorC         Dm7Dm7        G+G
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
      A minorAm   C majorC    FF        C majorC
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
          A minorAm    C majorC               A minorAm C majorC
Our fine and fancy homemade love God's precious gift from up above
                A minorAm   G+G       C majorC  C majorC
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

🎄 ❄ 🎅 Verse 3:
    D MajorD
Little Linda ain't no baby hell
  G+G         D MajorD
She turns thirteen in April
      B minorBm    D MajorD
She's been dreamin' about that dolly
              A augmentedA
In the window for half her life
   D MajorD
She's old enough to realize
   G+G       D MajorD
That it ain't never comin'
  G+G        D MajorD
I'd damn near rob a bank
  G+G    D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD
To get that doll and Billy's knife

🎄 ❄ 🎅 Chorus:
     B minorBm   D MajorD    G+G        D MajorD
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
   G+G        D MajorD         E minor 7Em7        A augmentedA
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
      B minorBm   D MajorD    G+G        D MajorD
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
          B minorBm    D MajorD               B minorBm D MajorD
Our fine and fancy homemade love God's precious gift from up above
                B minorBm   A augmentedA       D MajorD
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

🎄 ❄ 🎅 Outro:
     B minorBm   D MajorD    G+G        D MajorD
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
   G+G        D MajorD         E minor 7Em7        A augmentedA
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
      B minorBm   D MajorD    G+G
It's just another homemade Christmas