Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas guitar chord

"Please Come Home For Christmas"

(Charles Brown - Gene Redd)

[arrangement from Eagles' 1978 single]

intro: [A E F# C#] (single notes on piano)

verse 1:

A Amaj7 A7

Bells will be ringing the sad, sad news

D B7/D#

Oh what a Christmas to have the blues

A D A A/G# F#m

My baby's gone I have no friends

B7 E E+

To wish me greetings once again

verse 2:

Crowds will be singing "Silent Night"

Christmas carols by candlelight

Please come home for Christmas, please come home for Christmas

B7 E7 A A7

If not for Christmas, by New Year's night

bridge:

D Dm

Friends and relations send salutations

A E+ A A7

Sure as the stars shine above

D Dm

But this is Christmas, yes, Christmas my dear

B7 E E+

The time of year to be with the one you love

verse 3:

So won't you tell me you'll never more roam

Christmas and New Year's will find you home

A C#7 F#m F#m/E D D#dim

There'll be no more sorrow, no grief and pain

A F#m B7 E7 A

And I'll be happy, [1: happy] once again

[2: Christmas]

[repeat verse 3 with guitar solo over first two lines]

outro:

A D A [A E F# C#] (single notes on piano)

[...again] / / / /

Bb

When the waitress said

F Eb

Closin' time

Bb