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Carol Book Caroling Veterans in the Hospital on Christmas Day

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8:30am Registration 9:00am Orientation

Created for ththee V.A. Palo Alto Health C Careare System

2013 Edition

The majority of the carols came from the Christian Virtual Hymnal, a product from MusicEase and one from their Traditional Songbook . Some of the other pieces were created using the MusicEase Professional music composition software. See http://musicease.com for details. Table of Contents

Page Carol/Song 0 Table of Contents 1 America the Beautiful 2 Angels We Have Heard on High * 3 Away in a Manger 4 Deck the Halls 5a Feliz Navidad 5b God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 6 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 7 Here Comes * 8 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear 9 Jingle Bells 10 Joy to the World 11 Little Drummer Boy 12 O Come, All Ye Faithful * 13 O Holy Night 14 O Little Town of 15 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 15 Santa Claus is Coming to Town * 16 Silent Night 17 Silver Bells 18 The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire) 19 The First Noel 20 This Land is Your Land 21 We Wish You a Merry Christmas * 22 What Child Is This? 23 White Christmas 24 Winter Wonderland 25 Chords

* = sung without instruments

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- 6 - Here Comes Santa Claus

C Here comes Santa Claus, Here comes Santa Claus,

G7 Right down Santa Claus Lane. Vixen and Blitzen and all his reindeer

C are pulling on the rein.

F Em Bells are ringing, children singing

G7 C All is merry and bright.

F C Hang your stockings and say your pray'rs,

G7 C 'Cause Santa Claus comes tonight.

C Here comes Santa Claus, Here comes Santa Claus,

G7 Right down Santa Claus Lane. He's got a bag that is filled with toys

C for the boys and girls again.

F Em Hear those sleigh bells jingle jangle,

G7 C What a beautiful sight.

F C Jump in bed, cover up your head,

G7 C 'Cause Santa Claus comes tonight

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Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer By Johnny Marks

C G Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose

C And if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows.

G All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names.

C They never let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games.

F C G7 C Then one foggy , Santa came to say,

G D7 G7 "Rudolph with your nose so bright won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"

C G Then how the reindeer loved him, as they shouted out with glee,

G "Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, you'll go down in history!"

Santa Claus is Coming to Town By Fred Coots & Haven Gillespie

C F You better watch out, you better not cry,

C F C G7 C You better not frown I'm telling you why: Santa Claus is coming to town.

C F He's making a list and checking it twice,

C F C G7 C Gonna find out who's naughty and nice. Santa Claus is coming to town.

C7 F C7 F He sees you when your sleeping ,he knows when you're awake.

D7 G D7 G (G7) He knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake! Oh

C F You better watch out, you better not cry,

C F C G7 G You better not frown I'm telling you why: Santa Claus is coming to town.

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- 22 - White Christmas Irving Berlin

G Am D I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,

C D7 G just like the ones I used to know

G7 Where the tree-tops glisten,

C Cm and children listen;

G Am D7 D to hear sleigh-bells in the snow

G Am D I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,

C D7 G with every I write

G7 Cm May your days be merry and bright,

G Em C D7 G Am D7 and may all your be white

G Em C D7 G And may all your Christmases be white.

- 23 - Winter Wonderland By Felix Bernard & Richard B. Smith

C Sleigh bells ring, are you listenin'?

G7 In the lane, snow is glistenin'

G G7 A beautiful sight, were happy tonight,

C G7 C Walkin' in the winter wonderland.

Gone away, is the blue bird

G7 Here to stay, is the new bird

G G7 He sings our love song, as we go along,

C G7 C walkin' in the winter wonderland.

E B7 E In the meadow we can build snowman,

B7 E and pretend he is parson Brown

G D7 He'll say "Are you married?"

G we'll say "No, man;

D7 G But you can do the job when you're in town."

C Later on, we'll conspire,

G7 as we dream, by the fire

G G7 To face unafraid, the plans that we made

C G7 C walkin' in the winter wonderland. - 24 -