Christmastime Is Not Here
Em Working late at the end of the year
D It’s dark when work is through
C Dinner rush goes by fast
B7 Another year comes due
Lights are up on the stores in town
Tree is in the square
Old carols could make grown men cry
Jingle bells fill the air
No lights up at home this year
No room for a tree
Don’t have much, not much to give
Not much for presents this year
Chorus:
Em Christmas
D Christmastime
C Christmas time is
B7 Christmastime is not here
Everyone’s asking are you ready for Christmas
I don’t see what’s the rush
One bad day isn’t enough
Gotta poison the whole month
Be better off without
Moldy old memories
Scrooges and humbugs are the only ones
Not putting a bow on their pain
Someone at school told the kid there’s no Santa
Maybe it’s better this way
He was asking why we don’t have a chimney
And where Santa would land his sleigh
Alternate Chorus:
Em Santa
D Santa Claus
C Santa Claus is
B7 Santa Claus is not real
Dad is in the nursing home
Mom’s crying over old photos
We’ll go brush the leaves off a small gravestone
Someone who won’t be coming home
If you weren’t doing great
At this time of year
Now it seems you’re doing worse
In contrast to all the holiday cheer
The winos and boozers seem normal now
The drunks are staying drunker
But sorrows aren’t staying drowned
All that you swallowed is not staying down
Chorus
Poor kids seem poorer
The food pantry collections
And coat drives don’t seem to be helping
Not when surrounded by dreams of perfection
Trying to bring Christmas to the whole world
Is like filling the sea
One teardrop at a time
When you look at all the want and the need
The want and the need seem bottomless
When it starts at home
The empty heart’s got nothing to give
Seems better to be alone.
Chorus
