From the Album: This is Christmas

by Emmy the Great & Tim Wheeler (ASH)

Chords by Rintyboos 22/12/11

Verse

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
Its christmas day and I wish I was surfing

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
I always hate the snow

[A#/Bb] [F/C]
I wonder how the waves are lookin

[C/G]
at the shores of Mexico

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
So put me on a plane i’ll go any destination

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
as long as its not cold

[A#/Bb] [F/C]
and the surf is high so here’s an invitation so

[C/G]
come on girl lets go

Pre-chorus

[A#/Bb]
I’m dreamin’

[D/A]
of the breakers

[D#/A#]
im wishin

I could take you there

Chorus

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
Oooooooh oohh oohh oooh ooooh oooooh oooooh

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
Oooooooh oohh oohh oooh ooooh oooooh oooooh

[A#/Bb] [F/C]
Oooooooh oohh oohh oooh ooooh oooooh oooooh

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [A#/Bb]
Oooooooh oohh oohh oooh ooooh oooooh oooooh

Verse (hit each chord hard, then mute)

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
Its christmas day and I wanna go surfin

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
somewhere far from here

[A#/Bb]( Tab from: http://www.gui[F/C]tartabs.cc/tabs/e/emmy_the_great/christmas_day_i_wish_i_was_surfing_crd.html )
take me where the sun is shining

[C/G]
and the ocean air is clear

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
I dont care i’ll go any destination

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
as long as you come too

[A#/Bb]
We’ll spend christmas night

[F/C]
by a beach fire on the sand

[C/G]
Under silver moon

Pre Chorus

[A#/Bb]
Im dreamin’

[D/A]
of the breakers

[D#/A#]
i’m wishin’

I could take you there

Chorus

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
Oooooooh oohh oohh oooh ooooh oooooh oooooh

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
Oooooooh oohh oohh oooh ooooh oooooh oooooh

[A#/Bb] [F/C]
Oooooooh oohh oohh oooh ooooh oooooh oooooh

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [A#/Bb]
Oooooooh oohh oohh oooh ooooh oooooh oooooh

Bridge

[F/C] [A#/Bb] [D/A] [D#/A#]
Ahhhhhhh by the ocean blue ooooooh oooooooooh

[F/C] [A#/Bb] [D/A] [D#/A#]
I’ll sing a song for you oooooooh oooooooooh

[F/C]
Oooooooooooooh Oooooooooooh Ooooooooooooh

Outro

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
It’s christmas day and I wish I was surfin

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
christmas day and I wish I was surfin

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [F/C]
christmas day and I wish I was surfin

[A#/Bb] [D#/A#] [A#/Bb]

standard tuning, no capo.

When I first met you, you said you would
Always love me, if I would just me good
I thought we’d go through life, your hand in mine
But this house is empty now, it must be Christmas time

I feel my love is dying
Outside the reindeer flying
So I just watched them disappear

–Chorus–
Don’t call me Christmas, I don’t love you any more
Gave my whole life to you, and what do I get
I’m just so lonely
Go spread your happiness, around the globe
But you should know that I won’t wait for you
You’ll have to get a new, Mrs. Christmas

You bring your presents, around the world
But what do you get up to, with all those other girls
Tell them you’ll give them, anything they wish
And then you move on, to someone else’s list

I was the first one to fall
The one that you’d ignore
And now I’m stuck here on my own

–Chorus–
Don’t call me Christmas, I don’t love you any more
Gave my whole life to you, and what do I get
I’m just so lonely
Go spread your happiness, around the globe
But you should know that I won’t wait for you
You’ll have to get a new, Mrs. Christmas

–For this part, you can play C E7 Am G quietly or just not play at all —
Spoken:
You promised me paradise
But here I am in the snow and ice
My heart froze many years ago
Another Christmas Eve alone

–Chorus–
Don’t call me Christmas, I don’t love you any more
Gave my whole life to you, and what do I get
I’m just so lonely
Go spread your happiness, around the globe
But you should know that I won’t wait for you
You’ll have to get a new, Mrs. Christmas

chords used

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0 3 1 0
2 0 2 2
0 0 3 2
3 2 3 0
x 3 1 x

Intro C

On the museum island,
At the end of the day,
we had travelled for miles,
We had come to escape
All the space on the page
That the newspapers gave
Up to pictures and pictures of us.
As we followed the coffin
Of your famous father.
Adjusting our skirts
As we turned at the altar.
And within every word
That they’d written, was spelt out
You’d taken your last ever bus.

So skimming the surface
Of all your new money,
we skimmed the surface
Of the air as we flew.
we were out of the rain,
we were thinking that maybe
Berlin was the place to renew.

well you know what they say
About terrible hate –
It will breed something good
When it’s through.
At the end of the day,
By the Potsdamer Place
And the Brandenburg Gate,
It was you.

hold C for interlude

You have hardened completely
By the end of this story,
You have learned to look clear
Through the flash of a bulb,
When you hear your own name
From the back of a crowd,
You just straighten your gaze,
No you don’t turn around.
Oh but there was a time
At the end of the day,
We were both stood in line
At the museum display,
And you outshone the light
Under which you were bathed,
You could outshine the sky
With the look that you gave,
Oh so don’t be afraid
To look back and wave,
Now that waving is all that you do.
At the end of the day,
By the Potsdamer Place,
I am waving back at you.

hold C for interlude

So don’t be afraid
To look back and wave,
Now that waving is all that you do.
At the end of the day,
By the Potsdamer Place,
I am waving back at you.

---Verse Two---

And you and me are still as the scenery moves
Oh, why should it stop, just ?cause
Suddenly, there?s one where there used to be two,
And everything?s quiet but yo
Looks like the speaker lived through the blow
Still playing some compilation you made
Feels like a lifetime sitting alone
So I start humming along to the tape

---Chorus---

I always liked this singer, I remember
How you were the one who told me that her name
Was either Mia or M.I.A.

---Bridge---

And I am thinking,
How many hours ?til I?m home?
How long do I stay in this place?
Who?s going to wash all the blood from my clothes?
Who?s gonna cancel my date?
Who?s gonna cancel my date?
And I think….

---Chorus---

I always liked this singer, I remember
How you were the one who told me that her name
Was either Mia…
Oh I think…

---Chorus---

I always liked this singer, I remember
How you were the one who told me that her name
Was either Mia, or M.I.A.

---Verse Three---

The day that we took out a car in the rain
I thought to myself that the sky was blue
As I?d ever seen it but yet
Still tainted with red…..