Dec122019

I Don’t Know How But They Found Me – Christmas Drag Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression and Tab

ChordsE C#m A B

KeyKeyCapo

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This is the chords of Christmas Drag by I Don’t Know How But They Found Me on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
E C#m E C#m
Another Christmas without you
E C#m E C#m
That makes it two in a row
E C#m E C#m
Just wrap me up like a present
E C#m E C#m
I’ll tie you up with a bow
Woah-oh-oh
A B
Ohhh-oh-oh-oh
E C#m x4

[Verse 2]
E C#m E C#m
I’ll just stay gone until New Year’s
E C#m E C#m
Or I won’t come back again
E C#m E C#m
Oh, how I wish it was last year
E C#m E C#m
When we were still best friends
Oh-oh-oh
A B
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Woah
E C#m x4

[Chorus]
A B E
Christmas is a drag sometimes (a drag sometimes)
A B E B
Please say next year that you will be mine (will be mine)
A B E C#m
All you’ve gotta do is say that I love you
A B
And Christmas this next year will be fine

[Piano Solo]
E C#m x12

[Outro]
E C#m x8
Will be fine
It will be fine
E
Will be so fine, fine

How to play Christmas Drag: key, chords and progression

Christmas Drag by I Don’t Know How But They Found Me is built around E major (four sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯), with 4 chords in all: E, C#m, A and B.

Listen for E – C#m – A – B (I – vi – IV – V in E major), the classic 1950s “doo-wop” progression: the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – lah – fah – soh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 2nd fret and play the shapes D, Bm, G, A (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.