Chords for Old City Bar- Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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[Bb] In an old city bar _ [Gm] that's never [Bb] too far, [Eb] from the places [Dm] that gather [Cm] the dreams [F] that have been.
[Bb] In the safety [F]
of night, [Gm] it's only [Bb] on light, [Eb] it beckons [Dm] to strangers [Cm] and they'll [F] always come in.
[Bb] And the snow it was falling, [Gm] the neon [Bb] was calling, [F] the music [Dm] was low, _ [C] and the night [F] Christmas Eve.
[Bb] And here [F] was the danger, [Gm] and even with strangers _ [Eb] inside of this night, _ [F] it's _ easier _ [Bb] to believe. _ _
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_ _ Then [Bb] the door [F] opened wide, [Gm] a child [Dm] came inside, [Eb] and no one in [Dm] the bar _ [Cm] had seen [F] there before.
_ [Bb] And he asked, didn't [F] we know, [Bb] [Gm] that outside in [Bb] the snow, _ _
[Eb] someone was [Dm] lost, [Cm] standing outside [F] our door.
[Bb] And the [F] bartender gazed through [Gm] the smoke and the haze, [Eb] through the window [Dm] and ice, [Cm] that corner [F] _ _
streetlight.
[Bb] We're standing alone, [Gm] by a broken fave home, [Eb] was a girl [Dm] the child said [Cm] could no [C] longer [F] get home.
[Bb] And the snow it was falling, [Gm] the neon was calling, _ [Eb] the [Dm] bartender turned and [G] said, not that [F] I care.
_ [Bb] But how [F] would you know this, [Gm] the child said, I've noticed, [Eb] if one could be home, _
[F] _ _ they'd be already [Eb] _ there.
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[Eb] And the bartender [Bb] came out [C] from behind [Bb] the bar, [Eb] and although [Bb] his life [C] was never that [Bb] far, [Eb] and he did [Bb] something else that [C] he thought no [Bb] one saw.
[Eb] When he took [Bb] all the cash from [C] the register [Bb] drawer, _
[F] and he followed the child to [Gm] the girl across [Bb] the street. _
[F] And we watched from the bar as [Eb] they started [Bb] to speak.
[Eb] Then he called for [Bb] a cab, and [Eb] he said, _ [Bb] JFK.
[Eb] He put the girl in [Bb] the cab, and [Eb] the cab drove [Bb] away.
And we [Eb] saw in [Bb] his hand, [Eb] that the cash was [Bb] all gone, [Eb] from the light that she had [F] wished upon. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ If [Bb] you want to arrange it, [Gm] this world you can change it, [Eb] we could [Bb] somehow [Cm] make this Christmas [F] thing last.
[Bb] By helping [F] the neighbor, [Gm] _ even the stranger.
_ [Eb] _ You know who needs help, _ [F] _ _ you need only [Bb] just a hand.
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_ _ _ [Bb] Then he looked for [A] the child, [Gm] _ but the child wasn't [Bb] there.
_ [Eb] Just the wind and [Dm] the snow, _ [C]
waltzing dreams [F] filled the air. _
[Bb] So he walked back [F] inside, somehow [Gm] _ different I [F] think.
[Eb] For the rest of [Dm] the night, [G] no one paid for a [F] drink.
_ [Bb] And the cynics [F] would say, [Gm] that some neighborhood kid, _ [Eb] wandered in [Dm] on some bums.
[Cm] The world [F] where they did, [Bb] but they _ [Am] weren't there.
[Gm] So they couldn't see, [Eb] by an old [Dm] neon star.
[Cm] On that night, [F] Christmas Eve, [Bb] when the snow, it was falling.
[G] [Gm] The neon was calling, [Bb] in case you [Dm] should wonder, _
[G] in case you [F] should care.
[G] _ _ [Bb] Why we [F] on our own, _ [Gm] never [Bb] went home.
On that night of all nights, [F] _
_ we were _ [Eb] already _ there.
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