A Year Ago This Christmas Chords

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A Year Ago This Christmas by Bill Haley is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, D7, G7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
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Verse 
C                                 D7 
A year ago this Christmas was the day that I lost you 
G7                                         C 
And that’s why this Christmas I will be so blue 
                                   D7 
There’ll be tinsel on the tree and lots of Christmas cheer 
      G7                                            C 
For a year ago this Christmas you broke my heart my dear 

F                                 C       G7      C 
Santa Clause was good to Jack and Bob and Joe and Jim 
D7                          G7 
Why did he take you from me what did I do to him 
C                                       D7 
I know that I will shed some tears when Christmas comes this year 
      G7                                            C 
For a year ago this Christmas you broke my heart my dear 

F                                 C       G7      C 
Santa Clause was good to Jack and Bob and Joe and Jim 
D7                          G7 
Why did he take you from me what did I do to him 
C                                       D7 
I know that I will shed some tears when Christmas comes this year 
      G7                                            C 
For a year ago this Christmas you broke my heart my dear 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante