Chords for Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Old City Bar

_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[F] In _ _ _ [Bb] an old city by, [Gm] _ that's never [Bb] too far, [C] from the places that [Bb] gather, [Cm] the dreams that happen.
[Gm] In [Bb] the safety of night, with its own neon light, it beckons to strangers, [Eb] and always
_ _ _ [Bb] And the [F] snowing was bubbling, _ [Gm] the [Bb] neon was calling, the music was loud, [Cm] and the night,
[G] Christmas Eve, _ [Bb] there [F] was the danger, _ [Gm] of living [Bb] with strangers, _ inside of this night, [G] it's
[Cm] easier _ [G] _ _
[F] to [Bb] _ _ [A] _ _ [Gm] believe.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
The [Bb] lights all were open wide, [Gm] and a child came [Bb] inside, that no one in the back, _ [Cm] had seen them.
[G] _
Then he [Bb] asked, did we know, [Gm] that outside in the [Bb] snow, _ that someone was lost, stuck [Cm] outside the [F] door.
And [Bb] the mountains are raised, [Gm] through the smoke and [F] the haze, [Bb] through the wind and ice,
[G] to that corner of [F] street light, [Bb] where standing, _ _ [Gm] by a broken [F] pavement, [Bb] was a girl that chance
had, could no [Cm] longer get home.
_ [Bb] And the snowing was bubbling, _ [Gm] the neon [Bb] was calling, the bartender turned, and [D] said, not
that I [G] care, _ [Bb] _ how [F] would you know this?
[Gm] _ And the child [Bb] said, I've noticed, if one could be home, _
[Cm] _ _ [F] they'd be over _ it'd be me.
[N] _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Then the mountain [Dm] took aim, and _ [G] he had a [Bb] light, that [Bb] made all of his light, _
[F] He's never, [Bb] that far, that he did something else, that [F] he thought no one [Bb] saw.
When he took all the cash, from [F] the richest of brow, then he followed the child, to the
[Eb] girl, [Bb] across the street.
[F] When he watched from the bar, as [Eb] they started [Bb] to speak, they called for a cab, and he said,
see I've came, with the girl in the cab, then the cab drove away.
And we saw the innocence, that [F] the cash was all [Bb] gone, from [Eb] the light that she had, was [F] too _ blind. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[G] This world you [F] can change it, [C] if we could somehow, [Dm] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ [F] by helping a neighbor, [G] or even a
[F] stranger, [Bb] and to know who needs [Cm] help, _ you need [F] only _ [F] just, _ _ [E] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] this. _
[F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] He _ [Bb] looked for the child, [Gm] but the child [Bb] wasn't there, just the wind and the snow.
_ Lots of [Cm] dreams to [G] fear.
_ [Bb] So he walked back inside, somehow [Gm] _ [F] different I think, and [Bb] for the rest of the night, no
one [Cm] paid for a drink.
But [Bb] the cynics [F] will say, that [Gm] some neighbor, [F] _ _ _
[Eb] wandered in [Bb] on some thoughts, [G] in the world
where [F] they [Gm] hid, [Bb] but they weren't there, [Gm] so they [Bb] couldn't see, by only a star, [G] on that
night of Christmas [F] Eve, [Bb] when the snow, it was falling, [G] the neon was [Bb] calling, in case
you should wonder, _ in case you should [F] care, _ _ [Bbm] why _ [Bb] _ we are _ narrowed.
[Gm] We never went _ _ home, home [Bb] that night, _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ we [F] were _ already. _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
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