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Perry Como with The Fontane Sisters – Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Chords

Updated January 8, 2026

[Intro]
G  G   C Gm  Am G
A7  D7

[Verse 1]
       G
It's beginning to look
  C        G
a lot like Christmas,
               C
everywhere you go
E       Am7                  D7
 Take a look in the five-and-ten,
 G
 glistening once again
     A7
With candy canes and
                D7
silver lanes aglow

[Verse 2]
       G                 C
It's beginning to look a lot like
G                        C
Christmas, toys in ev'ry store
E7       Am                F#
 But the purdiest sight to see,
        Bm              E7
 is the holly that will be
        Am7  D7     D    G
On your own,  front door (tacet)

[Chorus]
G         B
A pair of hop along boots and
a pistol that shoots,
                          Em
is the wish of Barney and Ben
Am                 A7
Dolls that'll talk and will go
                   D
for a walk, is the hope
for Janice and Jen
    D7
And mom and dad can hardly wait
    D         E      D7
for school to start again
C#7    C#7

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[Verse 3]
       F#                B
It's beginning to look a lot
     F#              A#        B
like Christmas, everywhere you go
D#            G#m7
Now there's a tree in the Grand
  C#7   F#
Hotel,  one in the park as well
    G#7
The sturdy kind that doesn't
         G#m   C#m
mind the sno - ow

[Verse 4]
       F#                B
It's beginning to look a lot
     F#
like Christmas, (hahaha)
                    B
soon the bells will start
D#       G#m7
 And the thing that will make them
 G#7   A7     F#    D#m      D#7
 ring, is the carol that you sing
        G#m   C#7  F#
Right within, your heart

[Interlude]
D G  C G   G        Am G
G C  E Am  F# Em/B  D7 G

Feel free to use our free Chord Shape Generator to see every chord in this song on guitar, ukulele and piano.

[Chorus]
G         B
A pair of hop along boots and
a pistol that shoots,
                          Em
is the wish of Barney and Ben
Am                 A7
Dolls that'll talk and
will go for a walk,
       D
is the hope for Janice and Jen
    D7
And mom and dad can hardly wait
    D         E      D7
for school to start again
(hahahaha, hahahaha, hahahaha, haha)

[Final]
       G
It's beginning to look
  C        G
a lot like Christmas,
                    C
soon the bells will start
E        Am
 And the thing that will make them
       E            E7
 ring, is the carol that you sing
        Am7    D7
Right within - your -
G     A   D   G
heart		 (Stop)

How to play Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas by Perry Como with The Fontane Sisters on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas by Perry Como with The Fontane Sisters is centred on G major (one sharp: F♯). The song uses 25 chords: G, C, Gm, Am, A7, D7, E, Am7, E7, F#, Bm and D and 13 more.

Listen for D7 – G – C – G (V7 – I – IV – I in G major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is soh – doh – fah – doh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Good to know: Gm, F#, Bm, B and C#7 are the tricky part on guitar (barre or movable shapes). Slow the change down until it is clean; on piano and ukulele they are simpler.