From: whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer TAB
Reply-To: whc2993@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:09:17 GMT

Okay I kept my promise.  I'm still looking for the chords to Blue Christmas

I hope I have time to type in a jazzy version of O Christmas Tree.


This is not straight off the record and I didn't compare the two.

This arrangement combines the melody and some backup.  If you sing along you
can follow the chords using this:
Basic Accompaniment Pattern: follow chord progression.
C
|----0-----0-----0-----0-|
|----1-----1-----1-----1-|
|----0-----0-----0-----0-|
|------------------------|
|-3-----------3----------|
|-------3-----------3----|

The song is in 4/4 time.  Almost every note is an 1/8 note. When you see 0^2 it
means play the string open then quickly hammer on at the 2nd fret.  It is
called a grace note.  The hammer should fall on the beat.

Intro
C
|----0-----0--------------|
|----1-----1--------------|
|----0-----0--------------|     <--play twice
|-------------------------|
|-3-----------3-----0--2--|
|-------3--------3--------|

C
Grand-ma  got run   o-ver by a   reindeer.
|------0-------0----------------|-------0--0------0------0-|
|------1-------1----------------|-------1--1------1------1-|
|------0-------0----------------|-0-----0--0------0------0-|
|-0^2-----0^2-----0^2--2--0-----|----2--------0^2---0^2----|
|----------------------------3--|--------------------------|
|-------------------------------|--------------------------|

                                      F
Walking home from our house Christmas eve.
|------------------------------------|----1-----1-----1-----1--|
|------------------------------------|----1-----1-----1-----1--|
|--------------0---------------------|----2-----2-----2-----2--|
|2--2----2---------3----2-------0--2-|-3-----------3-----------|
|------------------------------------|-------3-----------3-----|
|------------------------------------|-------------------------|


                                     C
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,                    but
|-----------------------------------|--------0---0------0------0-|
|-----------------------------------|--------1---1------1------1-|
|2---2---2----2-----2---2-----0-----|-0------0---0------0------0-|
|---------------------------------3-|----2----------0^2----0^2---|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------|


G7                            C
as  for  me and grandpa we be-lieve.
|----1-----------------------|------0-----0------------|
|----0-----------------------|------1-----1------------|
|----0-----------------------|------0-----0------------|
|0------0^2--3---2---0-------|-------------------------|
|-----------------------3--2-|-3-------------3-----0--2|
|----------------------------|---------3--------3------| 

                                  G7
          (see additional lyrics for verses 2 and 3)
    She'd been drinking too much  egg-nog,
|--------------------------------|---------1---1------1------1-|
|--------------------------------|---------0---0------0------0-|
|--------------------------------|---------0---0------0------0-|
|----2----2----2---2----0--------|-----------------------------|
|3---------------------------3---|-3--2-----------0^2----0^2---|
|--------------------------------|-----------------------------|


                              C
    and we begged her not to  go                         
|---------------------------|-----0------0----0-------0--|
|---------------------------|-----1------1----1-------1--|
|------------0--------------|-----0------0----0-------0--|
|----0--2----------0------0-|-2-----0^2-----2----0^2-----|
|----------------------3----|----------------------------|
|-3-------------------------|----------------------------|


                C7            F
    but she forgot her med-i - ca-tion,               and she
|----------------------------|----------1--1-------1---------|
|----------------------------|----------1--1-------1---------|
|-----------------------0--0-|-2--------2--2-0^2---2---------|
|2--------------2---2--------|------3------------------3---2-|
|----3---3---3---------------|-------------------------------|
|----------------------------|-------------------------------|


G7                                    C
stag - gered out the door in - to the  snow.
|------------------------------------|-----0-------0-------0-------|
|------------------------------------|-----1-------1-------1-------|
|------------------------------------|-----0-------0-------0-------|
|-0-----0-----2---3---2---0----------|--------0^2-----0^2----------|
|------------------------------3---2-|--3---------------------3--2-|
|------------------------------------|-----------------------------|


 Am                               Em
    When we found her Christmas     morning,
|--------------------------------|------------0--0-----0-----0--|
|--------------------------------|------------0--0-----0-----0--|
|--------------------------------|------------0--0-----0-----0--|
|----2---2----2----2----0--------|------------------------------|
|-0--------------------------3---|---3---2----------------2-----|
|--------------------------------|------------------0-----------|


G7                           C
    at the scene of the at -  tack,
|---------------------------|-----0---------0------0-------0--|
|---------------------------|-----1---------1------1-------1--|
|---------------------------|-----0---------0------0-------0--|
|---0--2-----3---0------0---|--2-------0^2------2----0^2------|
|--------------------3------|---------------------------------|
|3--------------------------|---------------------------------|


                                F
    she had hoof-prints on her    forehead,               and in -
|------------------------------|-------------1--1-------1--------|
|------------------------------|-------------1--1-------1--------|
|-----------------------0---0--|---2---------2--2-0^2---2--------|
|------------2-----2-----------|-------3-------------------3--2--| 
|3---3---3---------------------|---------------------------------|
|------------------------------|---------------------------------|

 G7                                 C
 crim-in-a-ting Claus marks on her   back
|----------------------------------|-------0-----0--------------|
|----------------------------------|-------1-----1--------------|
|----------------------------------|-------0-----0--------------|
|-0---0--2--3----2-----0-----------|----------------------------|
|---------------------------3---2--|--3-------------3-----0--2--|
|----------------------------------|----------3--------3--------|


Additional Lyrics
Verse2
Now we're all so proud of grandpa
He's been taking this so well
See him in there watching footbal
drinking beer and playing cards with Cousin Mel
It's not Christmas without Grandma
All the family's dressed in black
and we just can't help but wonder
Should we open up her gifts or send them back.

verse 3.
Now the goose is on the table
and the pudding made of fig
and the blue and silver candles
that would just have matched the hair on grandma's wig
I've warned all my friends and neighbors 
better watch out for yourselves 
they should never give a license
to a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves.


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"The blues is a low down achein' chill"  Robert Johnson
 and so is my apartment right now. 
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