C Dm
There’s been snow-covered Christmases
Am G
And ones just of rain
C Em
Of smoked hams and warm bread
Am G
And shiny toy trains
F Em
And though they’ve always been different
Dm Am
They’ve all been the best
D G
Yet there’s one I remember more tenderly than all the rest… (synth line: G,E,F#-E-F#-E)
D A Bm G A x2
C
[Verse 1]
C5
It all began with Uncle Jack, he made a crack and wouldn’t take it back
C5
Dad was drinkin’; he got sore, there was a flash, an awful crash
C5
It took the manger on the floor!
[Chorus 1]
G# Fm
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
C Csus4 C
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
G# Fm
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
C5
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
[Verse 2]
C5
He put two slugs in the neighbour’s door
C5
And kicked apart the manger scene
C5
The plastic Baby Jesus he blew to smithereens
C5
I can’t think of all the nine year olds who won’t be seein’ ten
C5
Or how he went-a caroling to the doors of now dead men! Ahhhhhhhhh!
[Chorus 2]
G# Fm
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
C
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
G# Fm
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
C5
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
G# Fm
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
C
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
G# Fm
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
C5
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
[Interlude]
F C F
Oh Tannenbaum! Oh Tannenbaum!
Gm F
The geese ein Ine a bummin’
F Bb F C
My name is soon a when the sun is shine
C Bb C7 F
What I convince a veener schnite
C F C Gm
Oh Tannenbaum! Oh Tannenbaum!
Gm C7 F
The geese ein Ine a bummin’
N.C
Of course I can repeat those right along in now but…
D A Bm G A
D A Bm G A C
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAH!!!!!!!
C
[Outro]
G# Fm
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
C
Shouldn’t have given him a gun, gun, gun
G# Fm
Shouldn’t have given him a gun for Christmas
C5
Look what Daddy has done, done, done!
(repeat)
