Kentucky Homemade Christmas

by Kenny Rogers

685
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
              They shut down the mine last summer, we're gettin' by on welfare
It's Christmas Eve, I'm walkin' home, not a dollar to my name
Night is almost on me, a night I'm almost dreading
No store bought gifts to open, but there'll be Christmas just the same.

It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Our fine and fancy homemade love, God's precious gift from up above
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man.

There's a brand new Barlow knife with a shiny wooden handle
Gleamin' in the window down at Galen Johnson's store
My wide eyed little Billy Boy, his face pressed to the window
Too young for understandin' what it means to be so poor.

It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Our fine and fancy homemade love, God's precious gift from up above
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man.

Little Linda ain't no baby, hell she turns thirteen in April
She's been dreamin' about that dolly in the window for half her life
She's old enough to realize that it ain't never comin'
I'd damn near rob a bank to get that doll and Billy's knife.

It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
Our fine and fancy homemade love, God's precious gift from up above
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man.              
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