ROGERS STAN - "first christmas.num" Tablature

From: Barrie McCombs <bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca>

FIRST CHRISTMAS Time: 3/4 (sync) Tenor: D Bass: C?
- Stan Rogers, 1979, on Between The Breaks, Key: D


INTRO: 1, 6m, 57, 1

1 * 5 1
This day a year a-go, he ...
6m 5 4 1 *
With a younger brother in ..
5 * 6m * 2m
Christmas break, a time for touching ...
* 5 4 5
And leaving was so ....
1 * 5 *
Three thousand miles a-way, now ...
6m 5 4 1 *
Making double time for the ...
5 * 6m
Well he always said, ...
* 2m *
He's spending ...
4 5 1 * 5 5
First Christmas a-...

1 * 5 1
She's standing by the train station, .. ....
6m 5 4 1 *
Four more dollars buys a ....
5 * 6m * 2m
Looks like the Sally Ann place after all...
* 5 4 5
That echoes ....
1 * 5 *
But it's warm and clean and free, ....
6m 5 4 1 *
At least it means no .....
5 * 6m
And if she cries be-cause ...
* 2m *
She hopes that it ...
4 5 1 *
First Christmas a-way ...


BRIDGE ONE:
5 * 5/4 5 1
..... In the a-partment stands a tree, ...
4 * * 5 5/4
Not like it was meant to be....
* 6m * 2m
It's not that same old silver star, ...
* 4 5 1 *
First Christmas a-....(INSTRUMENTAL)


NOTES:
- Rogers: tunes DADGBE, strums B 43 B2 43

FIRST CHRISTMAS PAGE TWO


1 * 5 1
In the morning, they get prayers, then it's ....
6m 5 4 1 *
Then a-nother meal back in ...
5 * 6m * 2m
Hoping maybe that "the boys" will think ...
* 5 4 5
Well, it's best they do ..
1 * 5 *
When the "old girl" passed a-way....
6m 5 4 1 *
Each had always kept the ...
5 * 6m
But the kids all said the ...
* 2m *
Cause he couldn't ...
4 5 1 *
First Christmas a-...



BRIDGE TWO:
5 * 5/4
In the common room they've got ....
5 1
/ And it's huge and ...
4 * * 5 5/4
Not like it ought to be____, and the lit-....
* 6m * *
It's not that same old silver star, .....
* 4 5 1 *
First Christmas a-....
SYMBOLS:
- Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord
- Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure
- Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):
- Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
- Key of C: C D E F G A B
- Detailed description: /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt
- Submitted by: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Even if it requires at least one box of Kleenex to get
through this song!