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Capital Lights - His Favorite Christmas Story chords
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Capital Lights - His Favorite Christmas Story
Chorus 1:
G C D
He met her up in Delaware in 1937
G C D
She was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress
G C D C
December 24th at a quarter till eleven is when he finally gained the
D
courage to ask her to dance
G C D (4X)
Verse 1:
G C G
It was the night before Christmas, it was love at first sight
G D D
The carolers sang as they danced through the night
G C G
She was a small town girl, he was a traveling guy
G D G
He never caught her name before they said their goodbyes
G C G
A couple years later he was out on the road
G D D
Having Christmas dinner in a diner alone
G C G
When he saw a young waitress with a gleam in her eye
G D G
Her favorite day of the year she showed her spirits were high
C G D
She said sir can you share a little holiday cheer
G D D
A simple Christmas story was all she wanted to hear
G C G G
He looked prepared with a smile as he started to say here’s my favorite
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Christmas story about a girl with no name
Chorus 2:
G C D
He said I met her up in Delaware in 1937
G C D
She was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress
G C D G
December 24th at a quarter till eleven is when I
D G
finally gained the courage to ask her to dance
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Verse 2:
G C
Every holiday season as he traveled he’d
G G
tell about his Christmas dance
D D
partner that he never knew well
G C G
He’d share his favorite story with the locals he met
G D G
He was called the Christmas story tellin traveling man
G C G
By age 53 he had done settled down
G D D
All the neighborhood kids liked to gather around
G C G
Just to listen to his stories about his life on the road
G D G
All he had now were these children he told
G C G
And every Christmas eve they showed up before dark
G D D
He’d tell them all the story but they knew it by heart
G C G
They could quote it word for word, he always told it the same.
G D
It was his favorite Christmas story called the girl with no name
Chorus 2:
G C D
He said I met her up in Delaware in 1937
G C D
She was wearing red lipstick to match her pretty dress
G C D G
December 24th at a quarter till eleven is when I
D G
finally gained the courage to ask her to dance
Verse 3:
G C G
Twenty years later as he took his last breath
G D D
It was on a cold Christmas morning on a hospital bed
G C G
The children were grown, he had nobody left
G D
Except the little old nurse who was holding his hand
C G
He said Ma’am can you share a little holiday cheer
G D D
A simple Christmas story was all he wanted to hear
G C G
But his eyes filled with tears at the words that she spoke
G D
Because his favorite Christmas story was the one that she told
Chorus 3:
G C D
She said I met him up in Delaware in 1937
G C D
Though I never caught his name he was a traveling man
G C D
December 24th at a quarter till eleven
G D G
I’m so glad he got the courage to ask me to dance.
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