Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

 It’s the news that no one hopes for,

 Every parent's greatest fear

Finding out the child you love so much

 Might not make it through the year

 Now the thought of spending Christmas

 Without him just feels wrong

 They’ve been praying for a miracle,

 Now they're praying he can just hold on

Chorus

 For one last Christmas, one last time,

 One last season when the world is right,

 One more telling of the story,

 One more verse of Silent Night,

 They’d give anything so he could have

 One last Christmas.

Verse 2

 Middle of September

 Still seventy degrees

 Daddy climbs up in the attic

Brings down candles

 Hangs the lights on all the trees,

 Then the neighbors started asking

 And pretty soon word got around

First it was the neighborhood,

 Before too long they lit up that whole town.

Chorus

 For one last Christmas, one last time,

One last season when the world is right,

 One more telling of the story,

 One more verse of Silent Night,

 They’d give anything so he could have

 One last Christmas.

Verse 3

 Twenty-seventh of October,

 His time was wearing thin

 Friends and family, even strangers

 That they didn’t know brought presents in

 He was weak but he was smiling

 Like there was nothing even wrong

 They said he wouldn’t make it,

 Looks like he got to see it after all

Chorus

One last Christmas, one last time,

One last season when the world is right,

 One more telling of the story,

 One more verse of Silent Night,

 They’d give anything so he could have

 One last Christmas.