title: Silver Bells ala Bob Hope
key: Christmas
harp type: Chromatic
genre: C
skill: Intermediate

Here’s the original clip from “The Lemon Drop Kid”, where the world
heard, for the first time, Silver Bells:
2 2* 3 -3 -4 4
Sil-ver bells!__ Sil-ver bells!__
-4 -4 4 -5 4 -4 4 3
It’s Christ-mas time in the ci-ty.___
2 2* 3 -3 -4 4
Ring-a-ling,__ Hear them ring!___
-4 -4 4 -5 4 -4 4
Soon it will be Christ-mas day.
4 -3 3 2 4 -3 3 2
Ci-ty side-walks, bu-sy side-walks
6 -5 5 -3 -3 -3
dressed in hol-i-day style,
-5 4 -4 3 -2* 2* 3 2* 2* 2
In the air there’s a feel-ing of Christ-mas.___
4 -3 3 2 4 -3 3 2
Chil-dren laugh-ing, peo-ple pass-ing,
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meet-ing smile af-ter smile,
-5 4 -4 3 -2* 2* 3 -5 5
And on ev-�ry street cor-ner you hear,
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Sil-ver bells!__ Sil-ver bells!__
-4 -4 4 -5 4 -4 4 3
It’s Christ-mas time in the ci-ty.___
2 2* 3 -3 -4 4
Ring-a-ling,__ Hear them ring!___
-4 -4 4 -5 4 -4 4
Soon it will be Christ-mas day.
2* 2* 2* 2* 2* 2* 4 -3* -3
Christ-mas makes you feel e-mo-tion-al.
2* 2* 2* 2* 2* 2* 2* 2* 4 -3* -3
It may bring par-ties or thoughts de-vo-tion-al.
-3* 4 -5 -3* 4 -5 -3* 4 -5
What-ev-er hap-pens or what may be,
-3 -3* 4 -3 -3* 4 -3 -3* 4
Here is what Christ-mas time means to me:
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Strings of street lights, ev-en stop lights
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blink a bright red and green.
-5 4 -4 3 -2* 2* 3 2* 2* 2
As the shop-pers rush home with their trea-sures.
4 -3 3 2 4 -3 3 2
Hear the snow crunch! See the kids bunch!
6 -5 5 -3 -3 -3
This is San-ta’s big scene,
-5 4 -4 3 -2* 2* 3 -5 5
and a-bove all the bus-tle you hear,
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Sil-ver bells!__ Sil-ver bells!__
-4 -4 4 -5 4 -4 4 3
It’s Christ-mas time_ in the ci-ty.__
2 2* 3 -3 -4 4
Ring-a-ling,__ Hear them ring!___
-4 -4 4 -5 4 -4 4
Soon it will be Christ-mas day.
Note: -2 and 2* are the same note – “F”
You may replace 2* with -2 if desired