[Intro]
G C/A Cadd9/B C G
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[Verse 1]
G Em C G
Joy and love and peace are here in this place
G C/A Cadd9/B C
By your leave I will sing of the season
G Em C G
Christmas is past, Twelvetide is upon is
G C/A Cadd9/B C
Winter was hard beyond reason
C G
By the lights of St. Stephen
[repeat intro]
G - C/A - Cadd9/B - C - G
[Verse 2]
G Em C G
The king was well-dressed in the silks of the best
G C/A Cadd9/B C
With his ribbons so gallantly streaming
G Em C G
And lo, thought he heard that lonesome little bird
G C/A Cadd9/B C
My god, Virginny's song is so pleasing
C G
By the lights of St. Stephen
[repeat intro]
G - C/A - Cadd9/B - C - G
[chorus]
Em C/A Cadd9/B C
Is it a shadow, you’re lost alone and only hide from your demons
Em C/A Cadd9/B C
But the shadow was dark so long and only a mattеr of see it [?]
C Cadd9/B C/A
A little light was all we needed
[repeat intro]
G - C/A - Cadd9/B - C - G
[Verse 3]
G Em C G
Captain hе heard that noble king's word
G C/A Cadd9/B C
He gathered his men for the doing
G Em C G
Gathered in green, a true rainbow of green
G C/A Cadd9/B C
Well Ginny cried out, "Why must you do it?"
C G
St. Stephen, I knew it
[repeat intro]
G - C/A - Cadd9/B - C - G
[chorus]
Em C/A Cadd9/B C
Is it a shadow, you’re lost alone and only hide from your demons
Em C/A Cadd9/B C
But the shadow was dark so long and only a mattеr of see it [?]
C Cadd9/B C/A
A little light was all we needed
[Instrumental]
G - C/A - Cadd9/B - C - G
G - Em - C - G
G - C/A - Cadd9/B - C - G
G - Em - C - G
G - C/A - Cadd9/B - C - G
G - Em - C - G
[Verse 4]
G Em C G
At the end of the day, on the ground where she lay
G C/A Cadd9/B C
Ginny sang a song of redemption
G Em C G
Joy and love and peace, from the first to the least
G C/A Cadd9/B C
If I was only a season
C G
Well St. Stephen’s a reason
[Outro]
G - C/A - Cadd9/B - C - G x4
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