I also added the reprises to the lines used in the kids version (eg like Pinocchio!).
Enjoy and may all your Christmases be bright.
F Em Dm C
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
F Em Dm C
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen
Am Dm
But do you recall
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The most famous reindeer of all?
Verse 1:
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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (reindeer)
G
Had a very shiny nose (like a light bulb)
G
And if you ever saw it (saw it)
C
You would even say it glows (like a flash light)
C
All of the other reindeer (reindeer)
G
Used to laugh and call him names (like Pinocchio)
G
They never let poor Rudolph (Rudolph)
C
Join in any reindeer games (like Monopoly)
Bridge:
F Em
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Dm7 G C
Santa came to say:(Ho Ho Ho)
G
"Rudolph with your nose so bright
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Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
C
Then how the reindeer loved him. (loved him)
G
As they shouted out with glee: (yippee)
G
"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (reindeer)
C
You'll go down in history" (like Columbus)
Verse 2:
C
Rudolph has got his red nose
G
in the Reindeer Hall of Fame.
G
Rudolph the red nosed-baby
C
of the little reindeer days!
Rudolph the North-Pole big-shot
G
rides around in Santa's sleigh,
G
Wearing a green fedora -
C
smokin' a cigar all day!
Bridge:
F C
'Cos one foggy Christmas Eve
F C
Santa came to say:
G
"Rudolph with your nose so bright
D7 G7
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
C
Then how the reindeer loved him.
G
As they shouted out with glee:
G
"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
C
You'll go down in history"
Verse 3 (shorter):
C
This story has a moral
G
anyone can plainly see:
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Just keep your red nose a-gleamin'
C
(and) You'll go down in history
Outtro:
F Em Dm C
If you keep your nose a red, red rose
F Em Dm C
If you keep your beak all pink and sleek
F Em Dm C
and if you keep your snoz maroon because
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You'll go down in his--- to--- ry
