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Originally Posted by Stratcat77
Love it! And Merry Christmas, my friend!!!
Great job. My daughter asked me to play this one for her last night. I did my simplified version. You need to teach me all those great chords you are playing!
Enjoy the Holidays!
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Hi Marty!
Thank you for the kind words! And Merry Christmas to you and your family as well! I hope you all have a great Christmas and great new year!
There is a fairly good lesson on YouTube from Frank Vignola that does a good job teaching you the basic chords in the key of C where I played this:
My version has a few other chords in it so that it is closer to the way Nat Cole's guitar player, John Collins, played this. You should be able to see those additional chords as I play them in my video. I will post my version below.
Stay safe and be well!
- Glenn
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The Christmas Song
By Robert Wells & Mel Tormé
Cmaj7____Dm7_______Em7__Am7
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Fmaj7__C9__Dbmaj7
Cmaj7____C9__________Fmaj7___B7
Jack Frost nipping at your nose,
Am7____Bb7_______Cmaj7___B7
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir,
___Emaj7______Bb7_______Eb
And folks dressed up like Eskimos,
G7__Fmaj7__Cmaj7
everybody knows
__Dm7__Em7_____Am7
A turkey and some mistletoe,
Fmaj7__ C9__Dbmaj7
Cmaj7__C6_____C7____Fmaj7___B7
Help to make the season bright.
Am__Bb7_______Cmaj7_C6__B7
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
____Em7__A7____Dm7__G7___C__Cmaj7
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.
_____________Gm7__C7_____Fmaj7__Am7
They know that Santa's on his way;
_________Gm7__________C7________
He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his
Fmaj7_Am7
sleigh.
_________Fm7____Bb7________Ebmaj7
And every mother's child is going to spy,
_______Dsus4___D7___________Dm7___G7
To see if reindeer really know how to fly.
Cmaj7_Dm7_Em7____________Am7__Fmaj7_C9_Dbmaj7
And so I'm offering this simple phrase,
__Cmaj7_C6_C7________Fmaj7___B7
To kids from one to ninety-two,
__Am7__________Bb7_____Cmaj7__C6__
Although it’s been said many times, many
B7
ways,
Cdim__Em7_Eb9_Dm6_G9__Cmaj7
Merry Christmas to you.