THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

LEVEL 5Eb · 92 BPM · Danny Elfman

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TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN

Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.

HOW TO PLAY

1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.

LYRICS

What’s (C)this?

What’s this?

There’s col or ev ’ry (B)where.

What’s this?

There’s white things in the (C)air.

What’s this?

I can’t be lieve my (Em)eyes.

I must be (Cmaj7)dream ing.

Wake up, (Em6)Jack, this is n’t (B)fair!

(G)What’s (C)this?

What’s this?

There’s some thing ver y (B)wrong.

What’s this?

There’s peo ple sing ing (C)songs.

What’s this?

The streets are lined with (Em)lit tle crea tures (Cmaj7)laugh ing.

Ev ’ry (Em6)bod y seems so (B)hap py.

Have I (Em)pos sib ly gone (G7)daf fy?

What is (F#dim7)this?

(G7)What’s (C)this?

There’re (Am)chil dren throw ing snow balls in (Em)stead of throw ing heads.

They’re (Am)bus y build ing toys and ab so (Em)lute ly no one’s dead.

There’s (Gm)frost on ev ’ry win dow.

Oh, I (Bbm)can’t be lieve my eyes.

And (A)in my bones I feel the warmth that’s (C#m)com ing from in (Ab)side.

(Ab7)Oh, (Db)look!

What’s this?

They’re hang ing mis tle (C)toe.

They kiss?

Why, that looks so u (Db)nique, in spired!

They’re gath er ing a (Fm)round to hear a (Dbmaj7)sto ry, roast ing (Fm6)chest nuts on a (C)fire.

(Ab7)What’s (Db)this?

What’s this?

In here they’ve got a lit tle (C)tree.

How queer!

And who would ev er (Db)think, and why?

They’re cov ’ring it with (Fm)ti ny lit tle (Dbmaj7)things, they’ve got e (F6)lec tric lights on (C7)strings and there’s a (Fm)smile on ev ’ry (Ab7)one.