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R: Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
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I don't want to see my mama cry
C F
Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
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I don't want to see my mama cry.
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1. Just last year when I was only seven
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Now I'm almost eight, as you can see
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You came home a quarter past eleven
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And fell down underneath our Christmas tree.
R:
G G7
...want to see my mama cry yy-yyy-yy ...
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2. Mama smiled and looked outside the window
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She told me "Son, you'd better go upstairs."
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D7
Then you laughed and hollered "Merry Christmas!"
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I turned around and saw my mama's tears
R:
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No, I don't want to see my mama cry
