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Up On The Housetop Chords

by Gene Autry
KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays478

Up On The Housetop by Gene Autry is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
Speed 
  			
A 
Up on the housetop reindeer pause 
D         A        E7 
Out jumps good old Santa Claus. 
A 
Down through the chimney, with lots of toys, 
D           A            E7        A 
All for the little ones' Christmas joys. 

 
D           A 
Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn go. 
E7          A 
Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn go, 
(A)                 D 
Up on the housetop, click, click, click; 
E7                                      A 
Down through the chimney with old Saint Nick.

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