One Winter?s Night Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][C][Am]
[C][G][Am]

[Verse 1]
I [Am]come
to you now with my
To commit my soul by my own free will
[C]For if I d[Am]on't dare to climb that hill
Then tell my tale nobody will
[C]One winter's night, lon[G]g ago[Am]
They were wide awake in a carriage house
And I snuck to the window
like a stable mouse
[C]The I can[Am]'t forget and my
hair's gone white
The things I saw in the flickering [C]light
One winter's night, [G]long [Am]ago
They were all in the kitchen
and the drink did flow
There was
Bing and
Dean on the radio
[C]The [Am]wind did howl, it was ten below
They were safe and sound from
the ice and [C]snow[G][Am]
And on the windowsill by the candle's glow
I could see an old cat gallery
[C]A b[Am]owl of cloves and pistachios
A bow on a thistle and some mistletoe
The [C]twilight winters night, [G]long [Am]ago
Once I surveyed the scene,
I made my haste
Up to the chimney without a [C]trace
For the [Am]sand runs fast at a rapid pace
And it's
Christmas
Eve, no time to [C]waste[G][Am]
I crept past the kitchen on
the tip of my toes
Straight to the parlor where
the pine tree [C]grows
A [Am]string of socks lined up in rows
I was followed by that old cat,
Calico
[C]One winter's night, [G]long [Am]ago
There in the house of the family hood
They had nine little babes
and they'd all been good
[C]I was car[Am]rying more than
an old man should
Nine little kittens made out of [C]wood[G][Am]
As I knelt beneath that
Christmas tree and spread
the gifts out quietly
[C]All [Am]at once, so suddenly,
I found myself with company
[C]For winter's night, [G]I'm all [Am]alone
His presence shocked and bothered me
For I must work in secrecy
[C]But the[Am]re he was, all shadowy
His features clipped in mystery
[C]His [Am]voice was low and billowy
As he offered his apology
[C]Do [Am]not fear, he said to me
And pardon my proximity
[C]My [Am]name is
Arthur
Hood, he said
But you can call me
Art instead
[C]I bui[Am]lt the floor upon which we tread
And I built the roof up over [C]it
And [Am]much like you I am seldom seen,
rarely one to intervene
[C]I f[Am]ix things up and I keep things clean,
catching leaks and mending screens
[C]And I'v[Am]e always felt that you and
I were of one fate to occupy
[C]Ple[Am]ased to meet you eye to eye
And he wished me well
Then he said goodbye
[C]In the winter's night
[G]Long [Am]ago
It was time to go
For the bells did ring
I had a list of lists
About a thousand things
[C]My [Am]swan song I shall not sing,
for thee I must leave what the silence [C]brings
For it's winter's night, [G]come on [Am]home
I was heading for the chimney
just as slow as I could
When I saw on the mantel
carved into the [C]wood
[Am]Six little words that would shiver me good
In loving memory of
Arthur
[C]Hood
One winter's night [G]long [Am]ago
In loving memory of
Arthur
Hood
One [C]winter's night [G]long [Am]ago
One [C]winter's night, [G]long [Am]ago[Am]
One [C]winter's night, [G]long [Am]ago