One Last Christmas

Verse 1:

             G

It’s the news that no one hopes for,

          Em

Every parent's greatest fear

C

Finding out the child you love so much

                                                  G 

Might not make it through the year

                  G

Now the thought of spending Christmas

      Em

Without him just feels wrong

                         C

They’ve been praying for a miracle,

                                                            G

Now they're praying he can just hold on





Chorus:

       C2                           Em

For one last Christmas, one last time,

 C2                                     D                      

One last season when the world is right,

                 Em

One more telling of the story,

               D                         Em

One more verse of Silent Night,

                       C2                               D

They’d give anything so he could have

                  G

One last Christmas.



Verse 2:

   G

Middle of September

         Em

Still seventy degrees

           C2

Daddy climbs up in the attic



Brings down candles

                                             G

Hangs the lights on all the trees,

                G

Then the neighbors started asking

                Em

And pretty soon word got around

C2

First it was the neighborhood,

                                                              G

Before too long they lit up that whole town. 





Chorus:

       C2                          Em

For one last Christmas, one last time,

C2                                      D

One last season when the world is right,

                  Em

One more telling of the story,

                 D                          Em

One more verse of Silent Night,

                      C2                                D

They’d give anything so he could have

                       G

One last Christmas.





Verse 3:  

               G

Twenty-seventh of October,

       Em

His time was wearing thin

                    C2

Friends and family, even strangers

                                                                G

That they didn’t know brought presents in

               G

He was weak but he was smiling

          Em

Like there was nothing even wrong

          C2

They said he wouldn’t make it,

                                                    G

Looks like he got to see it after all





Chorus:

C2                              Em    

One last Christmas, one last time,

C2                                     D

One last season when the world is right,

                 Em

One more telling of the story,

                   D                      Em

One more verse of Silent Night,

                      C2                              D

They’d give anything so he could have

                 G

One last Christmas.