COLORADO CHRISTMAS - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "A Nitty Gritty Christmas" Chords

_ _ We're gonna do the first Christmas song that Nitty Gritty ever recorded.
We had asked a friend of ours, the late great Stevie Goodman, to write a song for us. _
_ Stevie thought we were kidding, and the first thing he came up with was something called
Hey Santa, I want a Corvette in my stocking.
And we said, no, we're serious, man.
And he came up with a song that, at least in the Rockies, we hear this six, seven times a day.
And we put it on the album, we hope you enjoy.
It's called Colorado Christmas. _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ Looking out the window of this Hollywood [Dm] hotel _
[G] You'd never know that it was [C] Christmas Eve _
The billboards and the neon took the place of [Dm] silver bells
_ [G] And the temperature is 84 [C] degrees
I _ [Dm] can hear the traffic [G] on the crowded strip below
[Dm] As the palm trees poke their heads above [G] the seams
But [C] there's not a single rain deer [Dm] and it hardly ever snows
[G] And Santa drives a Rolls Royce [C] limousine
_ [Bb] But all along [F] the Rockies you [C] can feel it in the air
[Bb] From [F] Telluride to Boulder [G] down below
The [C] closest thing to heaven [Dm] on this planet anywhere
[G] Is a quiet Christmas morning in the [C] Colorado snow _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ I remember Christmases when I was [Dm] just a boy
_ [G] In the morning I would run to see the [C] trees
_ _ And the carolers on the hillside sang [Dm] their songs of Christmas joy
[G] Well I always thought they sang them just [C] for me
_ _ [Dm] Now the sun is setting [G] in the California sky
And [Dm] I can't find the spirit [G] anywhere
So [C] I think it's time for me to tell [Dm] Los Angeles goodbye
[G] I'm going back home to look for [C] Christmas there
_ _ [Bb] But all along [F] the Rockies you [C] can feel it in the air
[Bb] From [F] Telluride to Boulder down [G] below
_ [C] The closest thing to heaven [Dm] on this planet anywhere
[G] Is a quiet Christmas morning in the [C] Colorado snow _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [G] It's a quiet Christmas morning in the Colorado [C] _ snow _ _ _
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