Blue Chrismas

Blue Christmas (’68 comeback special version)
---------------------------------------------


Standard tuning.

    Riff 1:               Riff 2:               Riff 3:
    e||------------||     e||-----------||      e||-----------------||
    B||------------||     B||-----------||      B||-----------------||
    G||------------||     G||-----------||      G||-----------------||
    D||------------||     D||-----------||      D||-----------------||
    A||--0---1--2--||     A||-----------||      A||---s----s----s---||
    E||------------||     E||--5--4--3--||      E||--2/3--2/3--2/3--||


                E    Riff 1  E             B7       Riff 1
    I’ll have a Blue         Christmas without you
    B7                            E           Riff 1
    I’ll be so blue just thinking about you
        E7                  A                   Riff 2
    Decorations of red on a green Christmastree
    F#                Riff 1  B7
    Won’t be the same if      you’re not here with me


    [nc]     Riff 1 E    Riff 1  E                B7       Riff 1
    And when those  blue         snowflakes start falling
    B7                                    E        Riff 3   E
    That’s when those blue mem’ries start calling
              E7                         A            F#
    You’ll be doin’ all right, with your Christmas of white,
        B7                               E          Riff 1
    But I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue Christmas


    [nc]        E    Riff 1  E                B7       Riff 1
    I’ll have a Blue         Christmas that’s certain
    B7                                   E        Riff 3   E
    And when those blue heartaches start hurting
              E7                         A            F#
    You’ll be doin’ all right, with your Christmas of white,
        B7                               E         Riff 1
    But I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue Christmas
              E7                         A            F#
    You’ll be doin’ all right, with your Christmas of white,
        B7                Riff 3         E          Riff 1
    But I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue Christmas


                E    Riff 1  E             B7       Riff 1
    I’ll have a Blue         Christmas without you
    B7                            E           Riff 1
    I’ll be so blue just thinking about you
        E7                  A                   Riff 2
    Decorations of red on a green Christmastree
    F#                   B7
    Won’t be the same if you’re not here with me


    [nc]           E    Riff 1  E                B7       Riff 1
    And when those blue         snowflakes start falling
    B7                                    E           Riff 1
    That’s when those blue mem’ries start calling
              E7                         A            F#
    You’ll be doin’ all right, with your Christmas of white,
        B7                Riff 3         E          Riff 1
    But I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue Christmas
        B7                Riff 3         E          Riff 1    E
    Ooh I’ll have a blue, blue blue blue Christmas