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A Child Is Born (2021)
03:57
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F
And the child is born
C
He won’t save the world
G
He won’t stop the wars
Am_________________D/E/F/E/F/G
There won’t be miracles
And the child is born
There’ll still be loneliness
There’ll still be hopelessness
There’ll still be hunger
F
And the child is born
C
Not in the wilderness
G
Not in the rain and snow
Am
Not in the desert
G
But he is beautiful
F
And he is my own blood
C
And that’s enough
F Am E G Dm C G G/E G7 F C G Am
And the child is born
Angels won't sing on high
Devils sleep down below
Sheppards stare at their phones
And the child is born
And he will scream and cry
He’ll have no appetite
He won’t sleep through the night
G
But he is beautiful
Dm______C
And that’s enough
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G_________________________C_____G
The wardens sang the 12 days of Christmas
______Bm_______E7____A
for the boys on the factory floor
_________D_________G___________Bm___F#
Where the prisoners all slaved to make quota today
______F_____________G_________Am_
And truncheons rang the bars on the door
_______F__________G__________C
And the children who played in their cages
______Bm_____________F#________G
Got a chocolate bar and a fresh cup of pills
_____G7__________________C
This’ll be the best Christmas in ages
_____Bm_________F#7______G___F#7
Don’t tell us if you’re going to be ill
Bm E7 A Am Am F Am Dm G# Am F E Am Dm G# Gm G C G C Cmin
The boys in the border militia
Trade gifts by the old concrete wall
And guzzle their brews where that twit on the news
Found the place where we buried them all
And the prison guards polished their rifles
And tape garland to the armory shelves
While the children still sleep on the tiles
And no one can speak for themselves
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_____________A#________Dm___D#
How many more christmases
____Fm_________D#____D#Mb5__C#__F#__Adim
Will I hold you in my arms?
How many more holidays
Will you fall for all my charms?
Gm
Somewhere down the road
_______F
Will we get what we are owed?
_______D#min_____Gm6
Are we destined to explode
_______Fm___________Gaug_G
Before we all must go out dancing?
How far have we gone?
What’s the road that we’ve been on?
Will be burn the amazon
Before we all can go out dancing?
How many more nights away
Will you tell me I’m your man?
How many more love affairs
Til we’re back where we began?
Somewhere near the end
Is it too hard to pretend
That we have enough to spend
So we all can go out dancing
It’s closer than you think
Have you had enough to drink?
Do we sign with blood or ink?
So we all must go out dancing
_____________C#________Fm___F#
How many more harmonies
____G#m_________F#____F#Mb5__E__A__Cdim
Will we sing before the dawn?
How many more sleepless nights
Will we have to carry on?
(Instrumental)
How many more witnesses
Do we throw onto the fire?
How many more christmases
Will we hear the children’s choir?
(Instrumental)
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Am E/Am Am E/Am Am E/Am Am E/Am
Am_____C/Am___F/Am____D#/Am
Spin me round the christmas tree
Am______B/Am_____Am______G/C
My eyes are closed it’s much too bright to see
Am__E/Am__Am__G/C__Am_E/Am_Am_G/Am
Although my feet can’t touch the ground
Please tell my doctor I am homeward bound
Dm____Dm7__Dm6__B/C/D__Fmaj____Emaj____Am
Whisper in my ear all of the things you want this year
____Dm_____Dm7__Dm6_______B/C/D___Fmaj__Emaj
And won’t you be surprised when all of your dreams are realized
B7_Emaj_B7_Emaj
surprise
Am_E/Am_Am_G/C_Am_E/Am_Am_G/Am_Am
___Am___C/Am___F/Am__D#/Am
And tell me captain your command
____Am______B/Am_____Am____G/C____Am___F__E
The smoke has gone we’ve lost our place to stand Oh no
G/C__Am___F/E__G/C__Am
Our place to stand Oh no Oh no
And tell the troops they’re going home
The desert sands have turned to ice and snow Oh no ice and snow oh no ice and snow
Children don’t you cry dry all the tears that fill your eyes
It’s christmas all the time In heaven your daddies sing sublimely
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E________________________B7sus4
I wonder if there's a place I can go
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where the winters won’t last forever
______________Am7
and they've never heard of snow
E_________________________B7sus4
And if you ever find your way there
_________________________A
Maybe you can find a place to dump my
___________Am7
ashes everywhere
D7_______________________Fm
All the ghosts keep on bummin’ around
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Thinking they can all dance forever
______C7
In this northern shithole town
I’d love to have a place by your side
But the universe is made to keep us
Here unsatisfied
It’s so lonely here in this ice
Even though it’s christmas time and
The stars are shining bright
All the wolves keep on bummin’ around
Thinking they can just cry forever
From their hole deep in the ground
And all the ghosts keep a singin’ along
Thinking they can just scream forever
Like they know the words to the song
All the devils keep on creepin’ about
No one wants to get sentimental
When they’re just popping pills into your mouth
All the ghosts keep on bummin’ around
Thinking they can just dance forever
And no one hears a sound
I’d love to find a place we can hide
Where’s there’s nothing but sandy beaches
And a warm sun on the tide
But all these ghosts keep on buggin’ around
wishin’ they were all going somewhere
When they’re all tied to the ground
And all these ghosts keep on flailing about
Thinking they can all dance forever
With no one calling them out
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A_____________________E__________________B
Saving up all year to take a holiday away from here today
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is there any place at all far enough away
We found a hole that’s deep and wide enough to fit us all in here
Is there anyone outside who can cover us with clay
I need to find ten million bandages to wrap around my eyes
If there’s any light at all there’ll be nowhere left to pray
We plug our ears with dirt until the screaming doesn’t hurt our minds
I will sing the Auld Lang Syne until the screaming goes away
A B/F# D#m B/F#
A B/F# D#m B/F#
A_______________________E_______________________B
We speak our words in coded messages we tap onto our palms
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If you have a voice at all you have nothing good to say
Our masks were held so tight our faces hurt but it’s still hard to breathe
with the ash still in the sky they can’t watch us fade away
We try in vain to hide our waste inside these old abandoned mines
Without any kind of love we’ll forget it’s christmas day
dreaming all the year of some kind of holiday away from here today
is there any place at all far enough away
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G
at Christmas time
Ddim6
I drank a glass of wine
D5 13
and looked into the eyes
D_________D7
of a stranger
And though the song
had only just begun
I knew when it was done
I was in danger
C_______________Caug
Dancing away the gloom
____________F6
in the empty room
____________D__D7
that you crept into
within your arms I felt relief
the knife between your teeth
sparkled like the stars
Sax solo
Dancing like there’s nothing wrong
your hands were very strong
beneath the christmas lights
Dancing without regrets
you were cold and wet
a kiss I can’t forget
sax solo
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Hawaiian Christmas
You stare at palm trees wrapped in Christmas lights
The fake snow on the lava rocks clogs your wheelchair wheels
And the ocean breeze is blowin' hard tonight
A
Hawaiian Christmas
D____________________________ A
You never seem to recognize my face
D_____________________________A__________D7
The neighbors say Aloha Merry Christmas Marlene
A_______________________E__________A
And you act as if a stranger's in their place
D_A_D_A_E
Big Island Christmas
You think the Hilton's waitress is your mom
You need a helping hand to hold the spoon up to your mouth
But you remember every word to every song
Hawaiian Christmas
You do not realize you're in a boat
The ocean longs to take both family or a stranger
And I'm sad to say you qualify as both
D
The waves come up
A
And the sun goes down
D
You won't recall
A
This crying sound
E_____________________________A____E
The ocean seems to recognize your name tonight
The ocean longs to hold you in it’s arms
The ocean calls to greet you with hello
Merry Christmas Marlene
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Reindeer Bones (2013)
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D______________G
My children scare me
D___E__F#_G____F#__D__E__F#_E_____D____G__D
they will run around and cry and throw things at me
D___E__F#_____G____F#___D__E
they will scream and scream and scream
F#__E_____D______Bm
and scream and scream
they will eat the tinsel off of the tree
they will puke all night and day and day and night
they will never go to sleep without a fight
they will throw the christmas wreaths into the fire
they will curse and swear and slash their grandmas tires
they will roam around the streets in vicious gangs
they will cut you with their claws and sharpened fangs
A
But late this christmas night
D
there was a clatter on the roof
A
like the scrape of Santa’s sleigh
D
and clack of reindeer hooves
G
but what followed all that noise
D
was not the sound of christmas cheer
G
but a series of violent thuds
E___________________A_A7
and a scream of primal fear
G
I ran outside to see about
D
this commotion on my home
G
and I saw my children bathed in blood
E__________________A
with a stack of reindeer bones
G
reindeer bones
D___GDGDGDGD A A7 D
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F_____________________C
Little Bruno Muller Schmid burned his sisters hair
and also stole his brother’s toys
and broke the baby’s chair
because he did not beware
Bb________Bbm________F______Fm_C_Cm
of who was coming up the stairs...
Little Ingrid Eder Haas drowned her father’s goat
and carved a Nazi swastika into her uncles boat
but she had no time to gloat
Bb_________Bbm_______F______FM_C_Cm_E_C_Cm_E
because sailing across the moat..
C____________________G
Black Peter and his friend Saint Nick
C_____________F
came sailing into town
C_______________G__________Am_____F
and quickly rounded up the horrid children
C_________________G
they stuffed them into boxes filled with
C_______________F
Scorpions and snakes
C_______________G______________Am_____________F
they guzzled eggnog while the muffled screaming filled the air
They broke in through their windows
They grabbed them from their beds
They tied them up with ropes and chains and gagged their sinful heads
They took all of their toys and games
and threw them in the fire
the fire made from gasoline and little thieves and liars
The people of the town all cheered
while smoke filled up the sky
they’d got their presents earlier, the smoke had made them high
then on the backs of ravens wings
they flew into the air
good ol’ pete and nicholas can end up anywhere
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I’ve packed my bags and I’m leaving you tonight
Merry Christmas
I’ve grabbed the nearest train out of town
Merry Christmas
I’m never going to call you
You won’t know where I am
I’m taking both the kids and the car
Merry Christmas
I’ve cleaned out all the money in the bank
Merry Christmas
I’ve maxed out all your credit cards
Merry Christmas
I called up all your family
And told them you’re on drugs
I told them you beat the kids twice a day
I’ve hacked into your facebook
I posted the pictures from Amsterdam
I got you fired from your daycare center job
I’ve pawned off all your jewelry
I’ve scratched all your cd’s
Flushed all your prescriptions down the drain
I put poison in your fish tank
Spread some rumors you had STDs
Kicked your dog and set your house ablaze
Merry Christmas
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On Christmas day my wife gave birth to snakes On Christmas day she gave birth to serpents
The crows fell from the sky and all the children lost an eye on Christmas day the world was ending
The angels in heaven burned themselves alive on Christmas day on Christmas day they slit their throats open
The air grew thick with arterial spray on Christmas day and I was blinded by lust
And then the bells chime out
Hallelujah
And then the choirs sing
Go fuck yourselves
The sound of footsteps on the roof told me the truth at last the time had come for Santa's blood
The gleaming in his eye and in his mouth a festering mountain of sores vile discoloured and awful
And Santa's penis his red curly penis sparkled like comets exploding in fire destroying villages and towns
And as he reached deep in his sac the room was filled with unspeakably horrible sounds of screaming on Christmas day
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I sat watching all the children cry
This disappointing christmas
Your face it bloomed with mustard coloured sores
This wretched christmas
Everyone cries at christmas
Chasing children through the filthy bushes
Their shoes lost in the snow banks
I threw their suppers to the hunting dogs
To teach the how to give thanks
Everyone cries at christmas
Everyone cries at christmas
(where's my money?)
Throwing bleach into the pony's eyes
I thought I taught you better
All you're getting from Santa Claus
Is some blood stains on your sweater
Because everyone dies at christmas
Everyone dies at christmas
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Patrick Canning St. John'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
Patrick is an artist type who lives out on the edge of nowhere in St. John's Newfoundland and makes music for himself.
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