Tonalità: G minor
Verse 1
Em
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This is Louis Satchmo Armstrong
Em
Talking to all the kids
Am
D
From all over the world
Em
At Christmastime
Verse 2
Em
'Twas the night before Christmas
C
When all through the house
D
Em
Not a creature was stirring
D
Em
C
Not even a mouse
Em
Verse 3
The stockings were hung by the
D
chimney with care
Em
D
In hopes that St. Nicholas
C
soon would be there
Em
C
The children were nestled
Em
all snug in their beds
D
While visions of sugar plums
C
danced in their heads
Verse 4
D
C
And mama in her 'kerchief,
Em
and I in my cap
C
Had just settled our brains
Em
D
for a long winter's nap
Em
D
When out on the lawn there arose
such a clatter
C
D
C
I sprang from the bed to see
Em
C
what was the matter
D
Away to the window, I flew like a flash
C
G
Em
Tore open the shutters and threw up
Verse 5
The moon on the breast of the new- fallen snow
Em
Gave the luster of midday
C
D
C
to objects below
D
Em
D
When what to my wondering
E
eyes should appear?
Em
D
But a miniature sleigh,
C
D
C
and eight tiny reindeer
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Bb
C
With a little old driver, so lively and
Verse 6
Em
quick
C
Em
D
G
I knew in a moment it must be
C
Em
G
St. Nick
Em
More rapid than eagles his cours
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C
Em
Am
ers they came
A
And he whistled, and shouted,
Edim
Em
G
Em
G
and called them by name
Verse 7
D
C
D
Now, dasher! Now, dancer! Now,
Bm
D
G
C
Am
C
Prancer and Vixen!
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G
C
D
F
On, Comet! On, Cupid! On,
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Donder and Blitzen!
D
C
Em
C
Em
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To the top of the porch! To the top
Edim
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Bbdim
of the wall!
C
D
C
Gm
C
Now dash away! Dash away!
D
F#
Em
C
Edim
Dash away all!
Verse 8
Em
D
C
Em
As dry leaves that before the wild
C
Am
Em
hurricane fly
C
Em
When they meet with an obstacle,
D
mount to the sky
F#dim
C
So up to the housetop,
Gm
Daug
the coursers they flew
D
C
With the sleigh full of Toys,
D
and St. Nicholas too
Bb
C
An d then, in a twinkle,
Verse 9
C
G#
G
I heard on the roof
C
Em
The prancing and the pawing
Edim
of each little hoof
C
Edim
Gm
As I drew my head
C
Edim
and was turning around
Verse 10
Bb
C
Down the chimney,
Bbdim
Edim
St. Nicholas came with a bound
Em
C
Em
D
He was dressed all in fur,
from his head to his foot
C
And his clothes were all tar
Em
Am
C
nished with ashes and soot
G
C
D
Gm
A bundle of Toys he had flun
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C
Am
g on his back
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A
D
And he looked like a peddler
C
just opening his pack
Am
His eyes, how they twinkled,
Verse 11
D
F#dim
Am
his dimples how merry
C
His cheeks were like roses,
Em
G
C
G
C
his nose like a cherry
Em
C
Bbdim
His droll little mouth was drawn
Gm
D
C
up like a bow
Em
Gm
F#
Gm
C
And the beard on his chin was as white
D
C
Bb
Gm
as the snow
C
The stump of a pipe
Verse 12
G
D
he held
Bb
G
Bb
tight in his teeth
D
And the smoke it encircled
C
his head like a wreath
F
G
He had a broad face and a
C
Em
C
little round belly
That shook when he laughed,
Bb
C
Am
D
like a bowl of jelly
Verse 13
C
Em
Bm
Em
He was chubby and plump,
D
G
C
a right jolly old elf
G
And I laughed when I saw him,
C
Em
in spite of myself
D
C
D
Am
D
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Am
C
Soon gave me to know that I had
nothing to dread
G
He spoke not a word
Verse 14
but went
D
straight to his work
C
And filled all the stockings; then
G
D
turned with a jerk
C
And laying his finger aside of his nose
F
C
And giving a nod,
G
C
up the chimney he rose
Verse 15
He sprang to his sleigh,
Edim
C
A
D
G
C
to his team he gave a whistle
D
And away they all flew like the
C
G
C
down of a thistle
But I heard him exclaim,
C#dim
A
D
Em
ere he drove out of sight
C
"Happy Christmas to all,
G
D
and to all a good night!"
Am
G
A very good night
And there goes your
Satchmo Armstrong
Thank you
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