Old City Bar Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 In an C/Gold city bG/Bar

 That's nAm7ever too fGar

 From the pFadd9laces that gathEmer

 From the drFadd9eams that have beenG

 In the sC/Gafety of niG/Bght

 By an Am7old neon lGight

 It bFadd9eckons to strangEmers

 And tFadd9hey always come inG

And the snow it was falling

The neon was calling

The music was low

And the night, Christmas Eve

And here was the danger

Even with strangers

Inside of this night

It's easier to believe

Then the door opened wide

And a child came inside

That no one in the bar

Had seen there before

And he asked did we know

That outside in the snow

That someone was lost

Standing outside our door

And the bartender gazed

Through the smoke and the haze

Through the window and ice

To that corner streetlight

Where standing alone

By a broken pay phone

Was a girl the child said

Could no longer get home

And the snow it was falling

The neon was calling

The bartender turned and said,

"Not that I care.

But how would you know this?"

The child said, "I've noticed,

If one could be home,

They'd be already there."

 Then the baFrtender came oCut

 From beGhind the bCar

 In Fall of his lCife

 He was nGever that fCar

 And he Fdid something Celse

 That he thGought no one sCaw

 And he tFook all the cCash

 From the regGister draCwer

 Then he folGlowed the chiCld

 To the gFirl across the stCreet

 And we waGtched from the bCar

 As they stFarted to spCeak

 Then he caFlled for a cCab

 And he Gsaid, "J.F.KC."

 Put the gFirl in the cCab

 Then the Gcab drove awCay

 And we Fsaw in his hCands

 That the cGash was all goCne

 From the lFight that she Chad wished uGpon

If you want to arrange it

This world you can change it

If we could somehow make this

Christmas thing last

By helping a neighbor

Or even a stranger

And to know who needs help

You need only just ask

Then he looked for the child

The child wasn't there

Just the wind and the snow

Waltzing dreams through the air

And he walked back inside

Somehow different I think

For the rest of the night

No one paid for a drink

And the cynics will say

That some neighborhood kid

Wondered in on some bums

In the world where they hid

But they werent there

So they couldnt see

By an old neon star

On that night Christmas Eve

When the snow it was falling

The neon was calling

In case you should wonder

In case you should care

Why we on our own

Never went home

On that night of all nights

We were already there