Getting Ready For Christmas Day – Paul Simon
Nghệ sĩ: Paul Simon
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
|Intro|
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Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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From early in November to the last week of December
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I got money matters weighing me down
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Oh the music may be merry, but it's only temporary
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I know Santa Claus is coming to town
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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In the days I work my day job, in the nights I work my night
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But it all comes down to working man's pay
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Getting ready, I'm getting ready
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Ready for - Christmas Day
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Getting ready for Christmas Day
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And let me tell you, namely, the undertaker
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He's getting ready for your body
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Not only that, the jailer he's getting ready for you
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Christmas Day, hmm?
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And not only the jailer, but the lawyer, the police force
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Now getting ready for Christmas Day
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And I want you to bear it in mind
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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I got a nephew in Iraq it's his third time back
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But it's ending up the way it began
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With the luck of a beginner he'll be eating turkey dinner
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On some mountain top in Pakistan
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
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Getting rea-dy, oh we're getting rea-dy
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For the power and the glory and the story
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Of the Christmas Day
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Getting ready, for Christmas Day
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Done made it up in your mind that I'm going
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New York, Philadelphia, Chicago
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I'm going, on a trip, getting ready, for Christmas Day
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But when Christmas come, nobody knows where you'll be
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You might ask me
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I may be layin' in some lonesome grave
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Getting ready, for Christmas Day
Interlude
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Verse 5→ Phiên khúc
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Getting rea-dy, oh we're getting rea-dy
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For the power and the glory and the story
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Of the Christmas Day
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Yes, we're getting rea-dy
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Getting ready, ready for your prayers
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"I'm going and see my relatives in a distant land"
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Getting ready, getting ready for Christmas Day
Verse 6→ Phiên khúc
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If I could tell my Mom and Dad that the things we never had
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Never mattered we were always okay
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Getting ready, oh ready
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Ready for - Christmas Day
Verse 7→ Phiên khúc
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Ready, getting ready
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For the power and the glory and the story of
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Christmas Day
Outro