Christmas Morning Blues Chords by Victoria Spivey

_ _ _ Get up from there, [G] woman!
[F] For what?
Without [Em] a child and a chicken [Dm] on the yard?
[C] _ _
[D] Woke up Christmas [C] morning, went out to get the morning's _ mail. _ _
_ _ _ _ I [F] woke up Christmas [C] morning, went out to get [Em] the morning's [C] _ _ mail. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
Sent from Georgia, the postman marked it like a _ _ jail. _
[C] _ _ _ _ And a mean _ old jailhouse, cause he broke them Georgia laws. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And [F] a mean old jailhouse, cause he broke them [C] Georgia _ laws. _
_ _ _ _ _ New [G] Year's he won't be _ held, [C] cause death will be his Sunday clothes. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ My man's so deep in trouble, _ the white folks couldn't get him free. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ My [F] man's so deep in trouble, the white folks [A] couldn't get him [C] free. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ He [G] stole _ [A] the hoes, the charges was more than the [C] first degree.
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ I ain't never had a Christmas with trouble like this before. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I [F] ain't never had a Christmas with trouble like [G] this [C] before.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[F] And a heartless knocking at my door.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
Next Christmas I _ won't be [F] here [C] to get this back, but you know. _
_ _ I _ _ _ [F] won't be _ _ here to get _ this bunch of bad news. _
[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] It's my [D] fault, my _ tooth's done, [Dm] I [G] died with Christmas morning [Cm] _ _ blues.
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