C                        Fmaj7    C
All of the drunks dressed up like Santa Claus
      G              C
Ring Salvation Army bells, but the town square is quiet
     Fmaj7          C
The juke joints are empty, everyone’s buying
      G
What no one can sell

C Fmaj7 C G C

[Verse 2]
         Am    Fmaj7
And the girl I loved once
C
Came to me last night
                            G
In a dream with a secret to tell
       C
She whispered close
          Fmaj7     C
Can’t you hear the ocean? As she leaned her ear
             G         C
Against a shotgun shell

[Chorus]
Fmaj7
Dark was the night, cold was the ground
         C                  Fmaj7
I could barely make out the song
         C
Of the Ghost Repeaters
        Fmaj7  C
Singing Hallelujah
             G         C
His truth is marching on

C Fmaj7 C G C

[Verse 3]
C
Willie Mae’s crying
       Fmaj7         C
At the toll booth to heaven
                           G            C
With a bottle of gin and a gold-toothed smile

Where the dreams pile up,
    Fmaj7          C
All washed out and broken
                             G       C
As thick as the stars on the Miracle Mile

C Fmaj7 C G C

[Verse 4]
        Am       Fmaj7
But the movie is over
     C
The theater is empty
                              G
The credits are starting to roll
           C
And the wages of sin
        Fmaj7      C
Don’t adjust for inflation, it’s a buyer’s market
          G          C
When you sell your soul

[Chorus]
Fmaj7
Dark was the night, cold was the ground
         C                  Fmaj7
I could barely make out the song
         C
Of the Ghost Repeaters
        Fmaj7  C
Singing Hallelujah
             G         C
His truth is marching on

[Verse 5]
C
The plaza is dark
     Fmaj7       C
The picadors are dreaming of blood in the alleys
      G            C
And rust on the vines they sandbag the bulls
     Fmaj7     C
And prop up the matadors, it’s a sweetheart contract
         G          C
They’re taking their time

C Fmaj7 C G C

[Verse 6]
     Am          Fmaj7
And all the ghost prisoners
   C
Who aren’t in the ghost prisons, don’t weep at the sound
         G
Of your name
         C
They just stare at the clouds
     Fmaj7  C
Of passenger pigeons, winging back home
        G            C
To the cities of the plain

[Chorus]
Fmaj7
Dark was the night, cold was the ground
         C                  Fmaj7
I could barely make out the song
         C
Of the Ghost Repeaters
        Fmaj7  C
Singing Hallelujah
             G         C
His truth is marching on

[Verse 7]
C
The star up above
      Fmaj7   C
The 5th Avenue Christmas tree is shining tonight
            G            C
Through the cold and the rain to light all the faces
        Fmaj7  C
In the live nativity down on the floor
        G          C
Of the stock exchange

[Chorus]
Fmaj7
Dark is the night, cold is the ground
     C                    Fmaj7
The armies march out to defend
        C
And the Ghost Repeaters
       Fmaj7  C
Of the revelators, are singing "Peace on Earth
         G           C
And Good Will to all Men"