This Is Christmas

Play the G#* like this, or it won't sound right.
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D|---2---| 
A|---X---| 
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Intro:  A  D  A

Verse 1:
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Do you find it hard to sleep tonight,
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Resting by the Christmas lights?
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Could there be something you forgot?
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Beyond the bows and mistletoe,
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The tree with presents wrapped below,
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There's more to this than you had ever thought.
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Have we lost the reason that we celebrate each year?

Chorus:
        A           E
What is Christmas,
         D                  Bm                 F#m
If there never was a Savior wrapped in a manger?
        E                 D
What is Christmas without Christ?

D  A

Verse 2:
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Remember how the story goes:
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God's gift was wrapped in swaddling clothes,
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Beneath the star, one great and holy night.
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The shepherds heard the angels sing.
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The wise men brought an offering.
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Peace on Earth began in Bethlehem.
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Have we lost the reason that we celebrate each year?

Chorus:
        A       E
What is Christmas,
         D                  Bm                 F#m
If there never was a Savior wrapped in a manger?
        E
What is Christmas,
       D                   Bm                   F#m
If the angels never sang, "Glory to the newborn King"?
        A                 D     E
What is Christmas without Christ?

Bridge:
There'd be no
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"Glo-o-o-oria,
A           D E
In excelsis deo.
F#m D A E
Glo-o-o-oria,
F#m         D  E A
In excelsis de-e-o."

Chorus:
        A           E
What is Christmas,
         D                  Bm                 F#m
If there never was a Savior wrapped in a manger.
        E                 D
What is Christmas without Christ?

Final Chorus:
A
        E
This is Christmas!
     D                  Bm
It's all about a Savior wrapped in a manger.
F#m     G#*
This is Christmas,
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Because of Jesus Chri-ist.
        A           E
This is Christmas,
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Because of Christ,
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Because of Christ.