Christmas Day

Am D Am D Am D Am D Am D Am D G Am

[Verse 1]
D            Am            D            Am
Where in the world did you come from my dear?
         D          Am             G            Am
Did some mysterious voice tell you I'd still be here?
  D                     Am                 D            Am
I bought this ticket to Mobile, but I been stranded all day.
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p.a. said the bus broke down ten miles away from the station

[Chorus]
Am          D      C           D
So seldom a door...so seldom a key...
Am          D             C
so seldom a lock like the love between you and me.
    Am           D         C           D
But seldom comes happiness without the pain
       Am           D             C
of the devil in the details since I saw the smile on your
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face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...in 1998
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face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day. Hey yay hey yeah

[Verse 2]
    D         Am          D           Am
The burden of love is the fuel of bad grammar
    D           Am              G        Am
You stutter and stammer--what a bitch to convey
    D           Am               D              Am
the crux of the matter, when the words you must utter
    D          Am             G                           Am     D Am D
are hopelessly tangled in the memories and scars you show no one.

[Chorus]
Am          D      C           D
So seldom a door...so seldom a key.
Am          D             C
so seldom a hit like the hurt you put on me
     Am           D         C           D
But seldom comes happiness without the pain
       Am           D             C
of the devil in the details since I saw the smile on your
Am            C           G         F       G  Am         C       G  F G
face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...in 1998
Am            C           G         F       G  Am         C        G      F   G
face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day. Hey yay hey yeah

[Instrumental]
Am D G F Am D G Am D G Am D G Am D G F G F

[Verse 3]
  D              Am         D          Am
I remember quite clearly, a bad Muzak version
   D              Am               G        Am
of James Taylor's big hit, called "Fire and Rain"
    D              Am                D         Am
was playing as you crouched down and tearfully kissed me,
                D               Am             G                       Am     D Am D
and I thought, "Damn, what good fiction I will mold from this terrible pain."

[Chorus]
   Am       D      C           D
So seldom a door...so seldom a key.
Am          D             C
so seldom a gift like the gift you gave me.
     Am           D         C           D
But seldom comes happiness without the pain
       Am           D             C
of the devil in the details since I saw the smile on your
Am            C           G         F       G  Am         C        G       F    G
face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...yay yay yay yeah
Am            C           G         F       G  Am         C        G       F    G
face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...yay yay yay yeah

[Outro]
Am      C           G         F   G  Am     C       G    F      G
Amazing grace, how sweet the smile upon the face I never thought
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             F     G    F   G     F   G              D
on Christmas Day...in 1998...in 1998...Christmas Day