Lyrics

Going to Rabbit Hash on Christmas Day - A
12/27/04

Verse 1:
A E
Slush from the bus
D A
Bad boots getting wet
D A E A
Pushing red corvettes out of lily white snow
Icicles trickle overhead
Spray-painted green trees in the lot
Over-priced to go

E D
Shovel, bum back, lights out Train track,
A D E A
bad check Snow drift tow truck tied up

Holly berries buried mistletoe on the rise
Surprise snow ball, windshield
Bad luck

Chorus: E D A
Freeze, please, river, lead me home
E D E
Freeze, please, river, let me leave the city’s froze
A D
I’m going to Rabbit Hash (x3) on Christmas Day

- dobro solo length of chorus


Verse 2:
Middle of the street
Footprints knee deep
Red light green light
Don’t matter any more
Snow plow somehow
Mowing down the road
Snow waves building up
On the banks of the shore

Slip, grip gone grab a pole
Too cold, let go, snow angel
Pray nobody saw
Honk, beep, hazard lights
No left, no right
Bumper bent, spent
No belief in Santa Claus
- harmonica solo length of chorus

Verse 3: (slide guitar stuff)
Rabbit Hash road closed
Sliding down a steep slope
No hope helping – hope the river is froze
Ice thick, thank god
Gloves got a bad spot
The General Store’s just about a stone’s throw

Fire hot, chili pot, corn bread
Mandolin, everybody sings
Where the pork rinds hang
Babies barefoot, black soot from
The belly of the stove, thawed nose
From the song they all sang

Verse 4: (guitar with stops)
(vocal with Banjo Percussion and Bass only) HAND CLAPS
Overalls, mustache, hats with ear
Flaps, deaf dogs, logs on a pile Outside
Bottle caps, banjoes, beards, drinking
Homebrew, outhouse, homemade Dutch apple pie
Slowly enter other instruments
Red suit, fruit cake, snow-flaked
Window pane, home is where you’ll shovel
Forever for free
Patch quilt, feather bed, legs weak
Go to sleep, Christmas eve, (ALL STOP)
The city’s but a dream.
Going to Rabbit Hash on Christmas Day - A
Slush from the bus
Bad boots getting wet
Pushing red corvettes out of lily white snow
Icicles trickle overhead
Spray-painted green trees in the lot
Over-priced to go

Shovel, bum back, lights out Train track,
bad check Snow drift tow truck tied up

Holly berries buried mistletoe on the rise
Surprise snow ball, windshield
Bad luck

Chorus: E D A
Freeze, please, river, lead me home
Freeze, please, river, let me leave the city’s froze
I’m going to Rabbit Hash (x3) on Christmas Day

- dobro solo length of chorus

Verse 2:

Middle of the street
Footprints knee deep
Red light green light
Don’t matter any more
Snow plow somehow
Mowing down the road
Snow waves building up
On the banks of the shore

Slip, grip gone grab a pole
Too cold, let go, snow angel
Pray nobody saw
Honk, beep, hazard lights
No left, no right
Bumper bent, spent
No belief in Santa Claus

 
Verse 3: (slide guitar stuff)
Rabbit Hash road closed
Sliding down a steep slope
No hope helping – hope the river is froze
Ice thick, thank god
Gloves got a bad spot
The General Store’s just about a stone’s throw

Fire hot, chili pot, corn bread
Mandolin, everybody sings
Where the pork rinds hang
Babies barefoot, black soot from
The belly of the stove, thawed nose
From the song they all sang

Verse 4: (guitar with stops)
(vocal with Banjo Percussion and Bass only) HAND CLAPS
Overalls, mustache, hats with ear
Flaps, deaf dogs, logs on a pile Outside
Bottle caps, banjoes, beards, drinking
Homebrew, outhouse, homemade Dutch apple pie
Slowly enter other instruments
Red suit, fruit cake, snow-flaked
Window pane, home is where you’ll shovel
Forever for free
Patch quilt, feather bed, legs weak
Go to sleep, Christmas eve, (ALL STOP)
The city’s but a dream.
Extra verse:
Battery dead, store closed
Salvation under fire, attack,
Ringing up back up
Holly berries buried mistletoe on the rise
Surprise snow ball, windshield
Bad luck

Chocolate cake red plate
Ear shattered wind chill
Landfill full of paper piled up