U2 - "christmas baby please come home" Tablature

Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:44:40 -0500
From: Chris Clark <drclueful@hotmail.com>
Subject: m/misc_christmas/christmas_baby_please_come_home.crd

Artist: U2
Title: "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)"
Album: "A Very Special Christmas"

Original version performed by Darlene Love
Composed by Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich

Tab by Chris Clark

>From Phil Spector's incomparable Christmas album. As usual with U2,
they play it a half-step up in Ab, so tune accordingly if you want to
rock out with the record.

Note: add an A bass note between the G and the Bm, and likewise F#
between the G and Em.

Comments and crits to: drclueful@hotmail.com

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Tab: Guitar
Tuning: Standard

G
It's Christmas
Bm
Baby, please...
C
Yeah!
D

G
The snow's...
Bm
I'm watching...
C
Watching the...
D
Baby please...

G
The churchbells...
Bm
They're ringing...
C
What a...
D
Baby please...

G
They're singing...
Em
But it's not...
C
I remember...
D
And all...

G
Pretty lights...
Em
I'm watching...
C
You should...
D
Baby please...

G Bm C D
(solo)
Baby please...

G
They're singing...
Em
But it's not...
C
I remember...
D
And all...

G
If there...
Bm
I'd hold...
C
But it's...
D
Baby please...

G Bm C D
Ohh...baby please...

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Recommended chord positions

G

e --3--I
B --3--I
G --O--I
D --O--I
A --2--I
E --3--I

Bm

e --2--I
B --3--I
G --4--I
D --4--I
A --2--I
E --x--I

C

e --O--I
B --1--I
G --O--I
D --2--I
A --3--I
E --3--I

D

e --2--I
B --3--I
G --2--I
D --O--I
A --x--I
E --x--I

Em

e --O--I
B --O--I
G --O--I
D --2--I
A --2--I
E --O--I