The 12 Days After Christmas - Rainy Day Guitar

1 The 12 days After Christmas (Sliding Capo ready)(Four calling birds)Intro: (pick) D G A (pluck or strum) D G D A D, (Alternating base notes) D A G DGD G D A D A G A The first day After Christmas my true love and I had a fight, and so I chopped the pear tree GA E AG A D Bmdown, and burned it just for spite! Then with a single cartridge, I shot that blasted partridge D G D A# D A D D G AMy true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.

2 D GD G D A D AG A GThe 2nd day After Christmas , I pulled on the old rubber gloves, and very gently rung the necks A E A D G D A# D A D of both those turtle doves my true love, my true love, my true love gave to me. (walking down to reg A)High A High E A D A E A G A D G A D The 3rd day After Christmas my mother caught the croop!

3 I had to use the three French hens E A D2/7 (bar5thbaseD)high G high Gto make some chicken soup! The four calling birds were a big mistake, for their language was high Gmaj7 E A BmE Aobscene! The five golden rings were completely fake, and they turned my fingers green!(Slide Capo Up one) D A D G D A DA G The sixth day After Christmas the six laying geese wouldn t lay!

4 I heaved the whole darn A G A E A7D7G Ecackle to the ASPCA. On the seventh day, what a mess I found! All seven of the swimming A D G D A# D A D D G Aswans had drowned, my true love, my true love, my true love gave to me. Dmaj7 Gmaj7 Dmaj7 walk up D open Walk down Dmaj7 A G The eighth day After Christmas before they could suspect, I bundled up theA A A A A eight maids-a-milking, nine ladies dancing, ten lords a leaping, eleven pipers piping, twelve ten A E A Gdrummers drumming, (actually I kept one of the ) and sent them back collect!

5 I wrote (Fbar 8) D GDA# D C High Bmy true love, We are through, Love! And I said in so many words, Furthermore, Em A D G D G D A high D then 11th fret D (whole chord)you re Christmas gifts were for the birds!