Grandma Runover By Reindeer

>>>>I can not take credit for the following. Someone else posted

>>>>it last year (sorry I don't have that person's name).

>>>>Best regards,

>>>>Michael Vincze

>>>>mav@asd470.dseg.ti.com

>>>>This is not straight off the record and I didn't compare the two.

:> I just reposted it...no promises.

:> Mike.

GRANDMA GOT RUNOVER BY A REINDEER

This arrangement combines the melody and some backup. If you sing along you

can follow the chords using this:

Basic Accompaniment Pattern: follow chord progression.

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The song is in 4/4 time. Almost every note is an 1/8 note. When you see 0^2 it

means play the string open then quickly hammer on at the 2nd fret. It is

called a grace note. The hammer should fall on the beat.

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|----1-----1--------------|

|----0-----0--------------| <--play twice

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|-3-----------3-----0--2--|

|-------3--------3--------|

Grand-ma got run o-ver by a reindeer.

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|-0^2-----0^2-----0^2--2--0-----|----2--------0^2---0^2----|

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Walking home from our house Christmas eve.

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|2--2----2---------3----2-------0--2-|-3-----------3-----------|

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You can say there's no such thing as Santa, but

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as for me and grandpa we be-lieve.

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(see additional lyrics for verses 2 and 3)

She'd been drinking too much egg-nog,

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and we begged her not to go

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but she forgot her med-i - ca-tion, and she

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|2--------------2---2--------|------3------------------3---2-|

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stag - gered out the door in - to the snow.

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|-0-----0-----2---3---2---0----------|--------0^2-----0^2----------|

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When we found her Christmas morning,

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at the scene of the at - tack,

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she had hoof-prints on her forehead, and in -

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|------------2-----2-----------|-------3-------------------3--2--|

|3---3---3---------------------|---------------------------------|

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crim-in-a-ting Claus marks on her back

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Additional Lyrics

Verse2

Now we're all so proud of grandpa

He's been taking this so well

See him in there watching footbal

drinking beer and playing cards with Cousin Mel

It's not Christmas without Grandma

All the family's dressed in black

and we just can't help but wonder

Should we open up her gifts or send them back.

verse 3.

Now the goose is on the table

and the pudding made of fig

and the blue and silver candles

that would just have matched the hair on grandma's wig

I've warned all my friends and neighbors

better watch out for yourselves

they should never give a license

to a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves.

And yes, I can accept the Pack-Rat of the Year Award :>

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Do not save your loving speeches

For your friends 'til they are dead;

Do not write them on their tombstones,

Speak them now instead.

- Anna Cummins