In an Old City Bar That's never too far From the places that gather The dreams that have been In the safety of night With it's old neon light It beckons to strangers And they always come in And the snow it was falling The neon was calling The music was low And the night... Christmas Eve But here was the danger That even with strangers Inside of this night () (Play following once:) It's easier to believe G G/F# Em Em7 C C/B D (Back to original pattern) Then the door opened wide A child came inside that no one in the bar had seen there before. And he asked did you know that outside in the snow that someone was lost standing outside our door. And the bar tender gazed through the smoke and the haze through the window and ice and that corner street light where standing alone by a broken pay phone was a girl, the child said, could no longer get home. And the snow it was falling, the neon was calling, the bar tender turned and said, not that I care. But how would you know this? The child said I've noticed, if one could be home, () they'd be already there. C C/B Am G (2x) And the bar tender came out from behind the bar. And in all of his life he was never that far. And he did something else that he thought no one saw. When he took all the cash from the register drawer Then he followed the child to the girl 'cross the street And we watched from the bar as they started to speak Then he called for a cab... and he said "JFK" Put the girl in the cab and the cab drove away And I could see in his hand that the cash was all gone From the light that she had wished upon If you want to arrange it... This world you can change it If we could, somehow, make this Christmas thing last By helping a neighbor... or even a stranger To know who needs help You need only just ask (Original chord progression) Then he looked for the child, but the child wasn't there. Just the wind and the snow, waltzing dreams filled the air. So he walked back inside somehow different, I think. For the rest of the night no one payed for a drink. And the singers would sing how some neighborhood kid wondered in on some bums in the world where they hid. But they weren't there, so they couldn't have seen, by on old neon star, on that night, Christmas Eve. When the snow, it was falling, the neon was calling, incase you should wonder, incase you should care. Now we on our own never went home. On that night of all nights () We were already there