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Lonely Christmas Eve

Ben Folds

RockMedium for beginners8 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Am×
G
Fmaj7Diagram coming soon
C×
Esus4Diagram coming soon
E
Dm××
F

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Intro: 
 
Am 
I'm not so bad 
Am/G 
I just hate to see  
Fmaj7 
a good time had 
C           Esus4 E 
By everyone but me. 
Dm             Esus4 E 
On this lonely Christmas Eve 
Dm 
I hear them up and down 
Esus4           E 
And up and down the street. 
 
Verse: 
 
They're making  
F     E           Am 
Noise noise noise noise. 
F     E                Am 
How I hate their happy noise. 
C 
There's only one thing I hate more 
G 
Come to think of it. 
Am             Dm 
And that's the people who keep 
F E (quick down strums) 
Making it. 
 
F     E           Am 
Feast feast feast feast. 
F       E                 Am 
They'll have more than anyone could ever eat. 
C                          G 
Me, I'm stuck here with my cream of wheat. 
Am             Dm 
There's no one here to feast with me 
F       E                Am 
On this lonely Christmas Eve. 
 
 
 
 
C                           Dm 
Don't they know I'm up here all alone 
F                    C 
In my cave up in the hills? 
C                          G 
How I wish that this would go away, 
Am            Dm 
This dreadful holiday 
F              E 
That they call Christmas day. 
 
C                           Dm 
When they're done with all their Christmas noise 
F                     C 
And they've had their Christmas feast 
C                        G 
Just when I think that I might finally  
Am                  Dm 
Get a moments peace they start to  
 
 
Verse: 
 
F     E        Am 
Sing sing sing sing. 
F        E         Am 
Now I'll never get no sleep. 
C                 G 
I'm screaming out the window 
Am           Dm 
But it don't do no good. 
F                      E 
They sing and sing and sing 
                Am 
All through the neighborhood. 
F    E    Am 
Sing sing sing. 
 
 
Dm 
They take their little break and then 
C              G 
They do it all again. 
 
F      E      Am 
It's a lonely Christmas Eve. 
          
 

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Chord set

Am · G · Fmaj7 · C · Esus4 · E · Dm · F

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.