the town meeting song w/full lyrics [HQ] track7 Chords

[Bm] Listen, everyone!
There were objects [D] so peculiar [Ab] they were not to be [G] believed,
or [Bm] round things to [C] tantalize my brain.
[Bm] It's a world [Em] unlike [Ab] anything I've [Gb] ever seen,
[Bm] and as hard [C] as I tried,
[Gb] I can't seem [G] to describe like a most [Gb] _ [Bm] improbable dream.
[Bb] But you must [G] believe [C] when I tell [Ab] you this.
[Bm] It's as real as my [Bb] skull, [Ab] and it [F] does [Gb] exist!
_ _ Here, let me [Bm] show you.
_ _ _ This is [Bb] a thing [D] called a present.
[G] The whole thing [C] starts with a box.
A [Gb] box?
[G] Is it [Gb] steel?
Is it filled with a box?
A box?
How delightful, a box.
If you [Abm] please.
[Bm]
Just a box with [Bb] bright [D] colored paper,
[Ab] [G] and the whole [Em] thing's topped with a bow.
[Gb] A bow?
[G] But why?
[Gb] How odd.
_ That's the point of the thing, not to know.
[Em] It's a [Eb] bat!
Will it bend?
[G] It's a [Db] rat!
Will it [G] break?
[Gb] [Em] Perhaps it's the head [B] that I [Em] found in the lake.
Listen now, you [Eb] don't [Em] understand.
That's not the point [B] of [Em] Christmas Land.
[Cm] Now pay attention.
We pick up an [B] [Eb] oversized sock,
[Fm] and hang it like this [Db] on the wall.
[G] Oh yes, it [Abm] does exist.
[G] Let [D] me see, [G] let me look.
Does it rot?
Does it cover with blood?
[Abm] Let me explain.
[Cm] There's no foot inside, [Eb] but there's candy.
[Ab] Or sometimes it's [Fm] filled with small toys.
Small [G] toys?
Do they bite?
Do they snap or explode in the sack?
Or perhaps they just spring out and scare girls and boys.
What [Fm] a splendid [E] idea.
[Ab] This Christmas, I [G] fully [Fm] endorse it.
[C] That's right, [Fm] it works.
Everyone, [Gm] please, now not [Db] so fast.
There's [Fm] something here that [C] you don't [Fm] quite grasp.
_ _ [G] Well, I may as well give them what they want.
[Cm] And the best, I must [Eb] confess, I [A] have saved [Ab] for the last.
For the [Cm] ruler of this Christmas [Db] Land
is [Cm] a fearsome [Dm] king with [A] a deep, mighty [Db] voice.
At least, [G] that's what I've come to [Cm] understand.
_ And I've also heard [Eb] it told that he's something to [Ab] behold,
like [Cm] a lobster, huge [Db] and red.
When [Cm] he sets out [D] to slay with [Cm] his reindeer [D] on,
[Cm] carting bulging [Db] sacks with [G] his big, [Ab] great arms,
that's a [G] soul I've heard [Cm] is said. _
[B] And on a dark, [Ab] cold night, [Db] under full [A] moon light,
[Cm] he flies [B] into a fog [A] like a vulture [G] in the sky.
_ _ _ _ [C] [G] And they [A] _ call him [C] _ [G] _
Sandy [Fm] _ _ [Cm] Claus. _ _ _
_ He-he-he. _ _ _
Well, [B] at least they're [Cm] excited, [Db] but they don't [A] understand
[Cm] that special kind of [Dm] feeling [Ebm] in Christmas [G] Land. _
Oh, well. _ _ _ _
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