D G C D/F# Em C

[Verse 1]
D        G
They got Christmas Muzak
      C              G
Piped in through the ceiling
D/F#   Em
And the refills of coffee
    C          G
Are always for free
D       G
And the waitress on graveyard
        C           G
And the surly night manager
    Em                     C            D
Are wishing that all of us losers would leave
          Am
There's a star on the sign
       Em
At the Texaco Station
         Am
Like the star long ago
        C
On that midnight clear
     Am
As I look all around
         Em
At these cold, empty faces
D G       D/F#     Em        C        D
I doubt that you'd find many wise men here

[Chorus]
D       G
And I'm dreaming about
  C      G
A silent night
  C    G
A Holy night
     C             D
When things were alright
        G
And I'm dreaming about
       C               G
How my life could have been
   Em       Bm       Am
If only, if only, if only
    Am
But somewhere down the road
               C
I gave up that fight
      G
Merry Christmas
     D            C       G
It's Christmas at Denny's tonight

[Verse 2]
D    G
Once I had a home
      C          G
And a wife and a daughter
      Em
Had a company job
        C            G
Earning middle-class pay
D    G
Then Lisa got killed
     C            G
By a car near the schoolyard
D/F#   Em
And my wife started drinking
        C                D
Just to get through each day
       Am                Em
I will never forget that little red wagon
Am                  C
Turning to rust all alone in the rain
    Am
One morning I flagged down
  Em
A truck on the highway
  G             Em         C          D
I just couldn't bear to go back there again

[Chorus]
D       G
And I'm dreaming about
  C      G
A silent night
  C    G
A Holy night
     C             D
When things were alright
        G
And I'm dreaming about
       C               G
How my life could have been
   Em       Bm       Am
If only, if only, if only
      Am
Well, it's not just the blind man
              C
Who loses his sight
      G
Merry Christmas
     D            C       G
It's Christmas at Denny's tonight

[Bridge]
C
They say
D                          C
Life's made of cruel circumstance
D                          Em
Fate plays the tune and we dance
Am
Dance til we drop
       Am
In the dust and we're gone
D
And the world just goes on

[Verse 3]
D   G
The cop at the counter
         C        G
He's the guardian angel
D/F#  Em
He    watches these orphans
        C             G
Through dark mirrored shades
        G
And the register rings
       C          G
Like a bell sadly tolling
D/F#    Em
For the fools we've become
Em      C             D
And the price that we paid
        Am
Oh when I was a boy
  Em
I believed in Christmas
Am                C
Miracle season to make a new start
  Am                     Em
I don't need no miracle, sweet baby Jesus
     G       D/F#
Just help me find
             C          D
Some kind of hope in my heart

[Chorus]
D       G
And I'm dreaming about
  C      G
A silent night
  C    G
A Holy night
     C             D
When things were alright
        G
And I'm dreaming about
       C               G
How my life could have been
   Em       Bm       Am
If only, if only, if only
    Am
But I'll still be here
              C
At the morning's first light
      G
Merry Christmas
     D            C       G
It's Christmas at Denny's tonight

      G
Merry Christmas
     D            C       G
It's Christmas at Denny's tonight