One Last Christmas

It’s the news[G] that no one hopes for,
Every pare[Em]nt's greatest fear
[C]Finding out the child you love so much
Might not make it through the year                [G]
Now the thought of[G] spending Christmas
Withou[Em]t him just feels wrong
They’ve been praying for [C]a miracle,
Now they're praying he can just hold on                     [G]

For one[C2] last Christmas, one last tim[Em]e,
O[C2]ne last season when the world is right,[D]
One more telling [Em]of the story,
One more verse [D]of Silent Night,          [Em]
They’d give anything so[C2] he could have                   [D]
One last Christmas[G].

Mid[G]dle of September
Still sev[Em]enty degrees
Daddy climb[C2]s up in the attic

Brings down candles
Hangs the lights on all the trees,           [G]
Then the neighbo[G]rs started asking
And pretty soon [Em]word got around
[C2]First it was the neighborhood,
Before too long they lit up that whole town.                  [G]

For one[C2] last Christmas, one last ti[Em]me,
[C2]One last season when the world is right,[D]
One more telling o[Em]f the story,
One more verse of[D] Silent Night,             [Em]
They’d give anything s[C2]o he could have                   [D]
One last Christmas.    [G]

Twenty-seventh [G]of October,
His tim[Em]e was wearing thin
Friends and family, [C2]even strangers
That they didn’t know brought presents in                       [G]
He was weak but[G] he was smiling
Like there[Em] was nothing even wrong
They said [C2]he wouldn’t make it,
Looks like he got to see it after all               [G]

[C2]One last Christmas, one last tim[Em]e,
[C2]One last season when the world is right[D],
One more telling [Em]of the story,
One more verse of S[D]ilent Night,           [Em]
They’d give anything s[C2]o he could have                 [D]
One last Christma[G]s.