Tonart: C major
Verse 1
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
You ever heard tell of
Lee
B
D
Christmas?
C#
G
Got me to rheumatism.
D
C
D
All swole up and ug lified.
E
Don't go making no mistake about
G
D
F
G
Abm
me.
G
D
Man's got to finish what he starts,
A
G
D
it's the only way to finish off your life.
E
G
C
How'd you like to be a 64 year old with arthritis,
D
rheumatism, and the varicose veins in your
G
F
D
Legs lookin' like some treasure map.
And you wonder,
how come I'd wanna take your horse
B
D
to get me over the border?
Christmas.
Lee
G
D
Christmas.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
That name
C
D
Christmas tells you something, don't it?
Yeah, there's a few know
F
D
I've passed this way.
I got a mighty fine proposition for you two,
B
D
join up with, a real toke with you and the boy.
Bb
F
You ever tell him what he's got to look forward to,
or does he know already?
C
F
Oh sure, you got the emancipation procrastination
Bb
and amendments up to your eyeballs,
F
but come hard times what you gonna do?
C
Sing a hallelujah chorus of
John
Brown's body?
A
Or are you gonna join the army again
so both sides can shoot at you?
G
D
You're smart, you do, like
Old
Smoke.
Honorous black man ever lived.
Made the
C
D
James boys look like small potatoes.
You heard
Old
Smoke?
Ab
Because of his pride.
D
He had a price on his head and he wasn't satisfied,
so he had to make it grow.
C
Old
D
Smoke, he never gave an inch.
No man, white or black.
When
Park askin', you got anything to say?
Old
C
G
Smokey answer, I come here to die,
not to make speeches.
C
G
hm, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Hard times missin'.
Gdim
Smoke!
G
C
Smoke, I thought he been another one
Interlude 1
G
C
G
C
G
F
G
F
G
Verse 2
Wie hat dir der Song gefallen?
TunerE A D G B E
Akkorde & SongtexteD B C# G C...
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