Intro
G Em G/D C

Verse 1
            G                                                            Em
It’s the news that no one hopes for, every parent's greatest fear
G/D                                                    C
Finding out the child you love so much
                                                      G
Might not make it through the year
               G                                                           Em
Now the thought of spending Christmas, without him just feels wrong
                        G/D
They’ve been praying for a miracle
C                                                      G
Now they're praying he can just hold on

Chorus
      C             G                Em               D
For one last Christmas       one last time
C             G                             Em         D
One last season when the world is right
                  C                      G                          D                        Em
One more telling of the story, one more verse of Silent Night
                    Am                      G/B    C                       (G)
They’d give anything so he could have one last Christmas

Verse 2
G                                            Em
Middle of September, still seventy degrees
            G/D
Daddy climbs up in the attic
                       C                                                            G
Brings down candles, hangs the lights on all the trees
G                                                                               Em
Then the neighbors started asking and pretty soon word got around
G/D
First it was the neighborhood
    C                                                 G
Before too long they lit up that whole town

Repeat Chorus

Interlude
C G/B Em D C G D/F#

Verse 3
              G                                       Em
Twenty-seventh of October, his time was wearing thin
                     G/D
Friends and family, even strangers
                 C                                                            G
That they didn’t even know brought presents in
             G                                                                    Em
He was weak but he was smiling like there was nothing even wrong
         G/D                                                C                                    G
They said he wouldn’t make it, looks like he got to see it after all

Repeat Chorus

Ending 
G Em C G