Song:   Christmas Eve Can Kill You
Artist: The Everly Brothers
Written by Dennis Linde


Intro:
                  
                  


Verse 1:
             
The winter's f

             
laking snow is

             
 brushin' thro

             
ugh the wiry t

   
rees
             
I stuff my han

             
ds down deep i

         
nside my coat
             
I think of yea

             
rs ago and hal

             
f remembered C

         
hristmas trees
             
And faces that

             
 still warm me

            
 with their gl

ow
             
The cold and e

             
mpty evening h

             
angs around me

        
 like a ghost
             
I listen to my

             
 footsteps in 

    
the snow
             
The sound of o

             
ne man walking

             
 through the s

              
now can break 

     
your heart
             
But stopping d

             
oesn't help, s

          
o on I'll go


Refrain:
             
And Christmas 

        
Eve can kill y

a
             
When you're tr

              
ying to hitch 

             
a ride to anyw

 
here


Verse 2:
             
The icy air I'

             
m breathin's a

             
ll that keeps 

           
me on my feet
             
I feel like I'

             
ve been walkin

          
g all my life
             
A car goes run

             
nin' by; the m

             
an don't even 

         
turn his head
             
Guess he's bus

             
y bein' Santa 

         
Claus tonight
             
The saddest pa

             
rt of all is k

             
nowin' if I sw

             
itched with hi

m
             
I'd leave him 

             
stumbling ragg

          
ed by the road
             
I'd ride that 

             
highway to the

             
 arms of my sw

        
eet family
             
And forget abo

             
ut the strange

         
r in the cold


Refrain:
             
And Christmas 

        
Eve can kill y

a
             
When you're tr

              
yin' to hitch 

             
a ride to anyw


here


Verse 3:
             
And as I walk 

             
I'm singing to

             
 myself, Oh Si

     
lent Night
            
Hopin' I can s

              
ave those othe

  
r souls
             
Oh, God forgiv

             
e the man that

              
 drives right 

            
by the other m

an
             
Take pity on t

             
he stranger in

     
 the cold


Refrain:
             
Cause Christma

          
s Eve can kill

 ya
             
When you're tr

              
yin' to hitch 

             
a ride to anyw


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