I'll Be Home For Christmas

Words & Music:

Kim Gannon & Walter Kent (1943)

 

C       Ebdim    Dm7     G7

I'll be home for Christmas.

Am/C    Gm6   A7 Dm7  Edim[or G7]

You can count on me.

F6[Dm7]     G7[Fm/D] C G/B Am

Please have snow and mistletoe,

    D7       Dm7      G9

[   D7       Am7  D7  Dm7/G  G7

And presents on-- the tree

 

Christmas Eve will find me

Where the love light gleams.

F6      Fm/D     C     A7+5[A7]

I'll be home for Christmas,

   D7   Dm7  G7    C  Ab7  CM79

[  Dm   Dm7  Ddim  C]

If only in-- my-- dreams

 

[use Dm7 to G7/Eb if you are singing it again]

 




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