The Day After Christmas Chords
The Day After Christmas by Kate Miller-heidke is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G, Am and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro:
C F G C
Am F G
C F G C
I'm thinking of when I first touched you
Am F G
Your skin was electric
C F G C
Now I'm far too wise to dwell on such things
Am F C
And far too sentimental to forget them
C F G C
Am F G
C F G C
I read somewhere memories are
Am F G
stories you write for yourself
C F G C
To explain who you are, and how you got there
Am F C
And to blame it on somebody else
C F G
Now the gifts are open
Am F G
The toys are broken
Dm F G
The speeches are all spoken
Am F G
And the dishes cleared away
C F G
The stream keeps flowing
Am F G
My doubts are growing
Dm F G
'Cause I've got no way of knowing
Am F G
if it'll dam or reach the sea
For you and me
C F G C
Am F G
C F G C
I met a man twice my age
Am F G
Half joking, he said 'I should warn you.
C F G C
You're a fish on the line, and the line's pulling in,
Am F C
and there's a frying pan coming to warm you.'
C F G C
And while I smiled, it occurred to me
Am F G
I'm just gristle and blood
C F G C
And I've spent half my life with the sun in my eyes
Am F C
Chasing rainbows through the mud
C F G
Now the gifts are open
Am F G
The toys are broken
Dm F G
The speeches are all spoken
Am F G
And the dishes cleared away
C F G
The stream keeps flowing
Am F G
My doubts are growing
Dm F G
'Cause I've got no way of knowing
Am F G
if it'll dam or reach the sea
For you and me
C F G C
Am F G
C F G C
When I was a child in a little kid's world
Am F G
My heart was the same
C F G C
as the one I have now But it amazes me how
Am G F
much everything else has changed
Am F G C