D                                      Bm                                 C                                  A 
the summer time treats him fairly well and the wintertime is a bitter cold rival

D                                                                  G                                          A 
it's winter time now in Georgetown, the streets come alive in the Christmas lights

D                                    Bm                                C                                  A 
and Rudy sleeps on a warm air grate with a newspaper blanket on December nights

CHORUS

A                                                                C                         D 
Deck the halls Rudolph the red nosed wino knows it's Christmas time

D                         Bm                               G                                A 
Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers dashing through the snow

G                             A                         D                                               Bm 
God rest ye merry gentlemen who found it in your heart to flip Rudy a finn

        C                                 A                                      G               A             D
Yeah and I'll be home for Christmas but this man has know place to go

        D                                                              G                                 A
Now Christmas has little meaning at all to people of greed and incredible waste

        D                                                Bm                                 C                            A 
who seek the deeper meaning in the shopping mall in a Yuletide spirit of impatience and haste

D                                             G                                          A 
Rudy is a patient man who tries to see the beauty in every thing

            D                 Bm                                     C                         A                     D
yes and not a very demanding soul whose only wish is to live until the spring

      D                                                     G                                       A
well nobody knows the reason why things turnout like the way they do

                D                                       Bm                                   C                               A
and there ain't no one can tell you the reason why there's fortunate folks like me and you

D                                                                     G                     A
Rudy must have people somewhere who wonder what became of the man and

D                                 Bm                                             C                                     A                             D
Rudy must wonder the same damn thing when the crowd passes by and he sticks out his hand

CHORUS

D                                                       G                          A
Rudy died on the borderline of a civilized world on Christmas eve

                        D                                                 Bm
you know the shoppers shopped while the temperatures dropped

      C                                    A                           D
on a man whose absence wont be grieved, peace on the soul of the cop who found him

       G                                                 A
in a booth with his hand froze to a telephone

                   D                                  Bm                              C                               A                       D
you know I think I know who he had on the line and Rudy won't spend this Christmas alone

CHORUS; LAST LINE x2

                G         A          D
This year Rudy gets to go