Date: 12/20/00; 4:24:19 PM
From: "Charles and Cristy Gosset" <c.gosset@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas - by John Denver

submitted by: c.gosset@excite.com

"Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas"
John Denver
Rocky Mountain Christmas

CHORUS:
    C                                       F
Please Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
C                                                G       G7
I don't want to see my mama cry(yy-yyy-yy 2nd chorus only)
     C                                         F
Ple-ease Daddy, don't get drunk this Christmas
C                      G7                    C
I don't want to see my mama cry.

VERSE 1:
   G                          G7               C
Just last year when I was only seven
  G                         G7                    C
Now I'm almost eight, as you can see
  C                             C7                   F      D7
You came home a quarter past eleven
         C                        G7                              C
And fell down underneath our Christmas tree.

chorus w/2nd chorus only change

VERSE 2:
   G                             G7                      C
Mama smiled and looked outside the window
  G                        G7                               C
She told me "Son, you'd better go upstairs."
   C                                    C7                        F
D7
Then you laughed and hollered "Merry Christmas!"
    C                            G7                         C
I turned around and saw my mama's tears

chorus and then to end

END:
     G                        G7                    F               C
C7(big finish)
No I don't want to see my mama cry-yy-yyy