Cold as Christmas (in the middle of the year)
F - C
- D - C (2x)
G Em
1. We still sit at separate tables,
C G
and
we sleep at different times,
D Em
and
the warm wind in the palm trees
C
hasn't
helped to change our minds.
G Em
2. It was the lure of the tropics
C
G
that
I thought might heal the scars
D Em
of a
love burned out by silence
C
in a
marriage minus heart.
B7
And I call the kids on the telephone,
Em
say there's something wrong out
here.
C G D
It's July but it's cold as Christmas in the
middle of the year.
Am E
The temperature's up to ninety five,
G F
but there's a winter look in your
mother's eyes
C
E
and to melt the tears there's a
heat wave here,
F C G F
so how come it's cold as Christmas
in the middle of the year.
+ F - C - D
- C
(2x)
G Em
3. I dreamed of love in a better climate,
C G
and
for what it's really worth,
D Em
I put faith in the star we
followed
C
to
this Caribbean surf.
G Em
4. But there's an icy fringe on everything
C G
and I
cannot find the lines.
D Em
Where's the beauty in the
beast we made ?
C
Why the frost in the summertime ?
+ CHORUS
Am E
+ The temperature's up
to ninety five,
G F
but
there's a winter look in your mother's eyes
C
E
and
to melt the tears there's a heat wave here,
F C G F
so
how come it's cold as Christmas in the middle of the year.
+ F - C - D
- C (2x)
D
C
+ It's cold as Christmas
in the middle of the year.
D
G
It's cold as Christmas in the
middle of the year.
D
C
It's cold as Christmas in the
middle of the year.
D G
It's cold as Christmas in the
middle of the year ....
(Elton John)