First Christmas tab by Stan Rogers

Tabs

First Christmas - Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks...Live!

Tuning: Drop D MajorD (D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB e)

INTRO (its not exactly right but it sounds nice)

D MajorD                    A augmentedA
e|-2----------2-------5-------3-p-2--------0----------0--------3--------2-p-0-------|
BB|-------3---------3--------3-----------3--------2----------2--------2------------2-|
G+G|----2---------2--------2-----------2--------2----------2--------2------------2----|
D MajorD|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------------------------------0-------0-----------0--------0-----------|
D MajorD|-0-------0----------0-------0-----------------------------------------------------|

B minorBm    A augmentedA    G+G          D MajorD
e|------------------------------------------------------------2-p-0----|
BB|-3--------2--------0--------2-3--------------------3--------------3--|
G+G|-------4--------2--------0---------0---2-----2-----------2-----------|
D MajorD|----4--------2--------0---------0---------0-----------0--------------|
A augmentedA|-2--------0----------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------5-------------------0--------0-----------0--------|

A augmentedA                    B minorBm
e|-0-----------0------0--------------------------------------2----------------|
BB|-----------------------------0-h-2--------3---------3----------------3------|
G+G|-------2----------2-------2------------2-------4---------4------4---------4-|
D MajorD|----2----------2-------2------------2-------4---------4------4---------4----|
A augmentedA|-0--------0---------0--------0------------2------2---------2------2---------|
D MajorD|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

E minorEm                  G+G          Asus4Asus4   A augmentedA      D MajorD
e|-0---------0-------0-----------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-------------------------------0-------0--------2-3---------3-p-2--------2------3--3-|
G+G|------0---------0--------0----------0--------0----------0------------2-------------2-|
D MajorD|---2---------2--------2----------2--------0----------0------------2----------2-----0-|
A augmentedA|------------------------------------------------------------0----------0-------------|
D MajorD|-2------2----------2--------2----------5-------------------------------------------0-|

D MajorD             A augmentedA
This day a year ago he was rolling in the snow
    B minorBm   A augmentedA    G+G        D MajorD
With a younger brother in his father's yard
A augmentedA                  B minorBm
Christmas break a time for touching home
           E minorEm      A augmentedA
The heart of all he'd known and leaving was so hard
   D MajorD              A augmentedA
Three thousand miles away now he's working Christmas Day
    B minorBm   A augmentedA      G+G       D MajorD
Making double time for the minding of the store
     A augmentedA                B minorBm
Well he'd always said he'd make it on his own
               E minorEm
He's spending Christmas Eve alone
   G+G     A augmentedA    D MajorD
First Christmas away from home

D MajorD                  A augmentedA
She's standing by the train station, panhandling for change
     B minorBm   A augmentedA   G+G         D MajorD
Four more dollars buys a decent meal and a room
A augmentedA                  B minorBm
Looks like the Sally Ann place after all
           E minorEm      A augmentedA
In a crowded sleeping hall that echoes like a tomb
     D MajorD                   A augmentedA
But it's warm and clean and free and there are worse places to be
    B minorBm    A augmentedA    G+G        D MajorD
And at least it means no beating from her Dad
A augmentedA                    B minorBm
And if she cries because it's Christmas Day
            E minorEm
She hopes that it won't show
   G+G     A augmentedA    D MajorD
First Christmas away from home

A augmentedA                            D MajorD
In the apartment stands a tree and it looks so small and bare
     G+G        D MajorD
Not like it was meant to be
A augmentedA                         B minorBm
The Golden Angel on the top it's not that same old silver star
          E minorEm
You wanted for your own
   G+G     A augmentedA    D MajorD
First Christmas away from home

D MajorD                     A augmentedA
In the morning they get prayers then it's Crafts and tea downstairs
    B minorBm  A augmentedA     G+G       D MajorD
Then another meal back in his little room
    A augmentedA                 B minorBm           E minorEm
Hoping maybe that the boys will think to phone before the day is gone
     A augmentedA
Well it's best they do it soon
     D MajorD                 A augmentedA
When the old girl passed away he fell more apart eyery day
     B minorBm   A augmentedA    G+G      D MajorD
Each had always kept the other pretty well
    A augmentedA                 B minorBm
But the kids all said the nursing home was best
            E minorEm
Cause he couldn't live alone
   G+G     A augmentedA    D MajorD
First Christmas away from home

A augmentedA
In the Common Room they've got the biggest tree
              D MajorD
And it's huge and cold and lifeless
     G+G      D MajorD
Not like it ought to be
A augmentedA
And the lit-up flashing Santa Claus on top
            B minorBm                 E minorEm
It's not that same old silver star you once made for your own
   G+G     A augmentedA    D MajorD
First Christmas away from home
    G+G     A augmentedA    D MajorD
First Christmas away from home




| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off

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