Kenny Rogers - Kentucky Homemade Christmas

Capo: 2nd fret

[Intro]
C Am Em Am

C Am Em Am

[Verse 1]
C
They shut down the mine last summer
F C
We’re gettin’ by on welfare
Am C
It’s Christmas Eve I’m walkin’ home
F G
Not a dollar to my name
C
Night is almost on me
F C
A night I’m almost dreading
F C
No store bought gifts to open
F G7 C
But there’ll be Christmas just the same

[Chorus]
Am C F C
It’s just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
F C Dm7 G
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
Am C F C
It’s just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Am C Am C
Our fine and fancy homemade love God’s precious gift from up above
Am G C
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

[Verse 2]
C
There’s a brand new Barlow knife
F C
with a shiny wooden handle
Am
Gleamin’ in the window
F C G
Down at Galen Johnson’s store
C
My wide eyed little Billy Boy
F C
His face pressed to the window
F C
Too young for understandin’
F C G C
what it means to be so poor

[Chorus]
Am C F C
It’s just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
F C Dm7 G
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
Am C F C
It’s just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Am C Am C
Our fine and fancy homemade love God’s precious gift from up above
Am G C C
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

[Verse 3]
D
Little Linda ain’t no baby hell
G D
She turns thirteen in April
Bm D
She’s been dreamin’ about that dolly
A
In the window for half her life
D
She’s old enough to realize
G D
That it ain’t never comin’
G D
I’d damn near rob a bank
G D A D
To get that doll and Billy’s knife

[Chorus]
Bm D G D
It’s just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
G D Em7 A
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
Bm D G D
It’s just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Bm D Bm D
Our fine and fancy homemade love God’s precious gift from up above
Bm A D
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

[Outro]
Bm D G D
It’s just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
G D Em7 A
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
Bm D G
It’s just another homemade Christmas