Last Updated on March 26, 2021 by Klaus Crow
Christmas time, I love it. I am a sucker for romance, christmas lights and feel good songs. It’s a time where I teach my guitar students the joy of playing and singing christmas songs. Two for the price of one.
We all have our favorites and it’s funny to see those old christmas songs appearing in new jackets over and over again. A great way to inspire a new generation with the real classics. Sometimes I really enjoy a new version, but I keep coming back to those warm beautiful voices of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
Yet I hope new christmas songs will be written every year and that the best of those songs will become classics again. Anyway, in the meantime there are a zillion songs you can enjoy. I created a top 35 to get busy. Grab your guitar, start playing and building your christmas repertoire!
Just click the song title to listen to the song on Youtube. Click “Chords” (next to the song title) for the chords and lyrics to the song.
Enjoy!
1 – Jingle Bells – Dean Martin – Chords
2 – Happy Xmas – John Lennon – Chords
3 – Hark! The herald Angels Sing – Frank Sinatra – Chords
4 – Santa claus is coming to town – Michael Buble – Chords
5 – Christmas time – Bryan Adams – Chords
6 – Driving home for christmas – Chords
7 – It’s beginning to look a lot like christmas – Michael Buble – Chords
8 – Silver Bells – Chords
9 – White Christmas – Bing Crosby – Chords
10 – The First Noel – Frank Sinatra – Chords
11 – Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer – Gene Autry – Chords
12 – Jingle Bell Rock – Bobby Helms – Chords
13 – A holly jolly christmas – Burt Ives – Chords
14 – Someday at christmas – Stevie Wonder – Chords
15 – Have yourself a merry little christmas – Michael Buble – Chords
16 – Wonderful christmas time – Paul McCartney – Chords
17 – Last Christmas – Wham – Chords
18 – All I want for christmas is you – Mariah Carey – Chords
19 – Rockin’ around the christmas tree – Brenda Lee – Chords
20 – Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow- Dean Martin – Chords
21 – It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Andy Williams – Chords
22 – I’ll be home for christmas – Doris Day – Chords
23 – Silent night – Frank Sinatra – Chords
24 – Winter wonderland – Bind Crosby – Chords
25 – Baby it’s cold outside – Dean Martin – Chords
26 – Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley – Chords
27 – Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano – Chords
28 – Merry Christmas everyone – Shakin’ Stevens – Chords
29 – Joy to the world – Mariah Carey – Chords
30 – The little drummer boy – Johnny Cash – Chords
31 – Cold cold christmas – Dana – Chords
32 – Frosty the snowman – Bing Crosby – Chords
33 – It came upon a midnight clear – Ella Fitzgerald – Chords
34 – O come all ye Faithful – Ella Fitzgerald – Chords
35 – O little town of Bethlehem – Bing Crosby – Chords
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If you are more into finger picking you can also check out Fingerpicking Christmas
If you just want tons of real christmas classics check out The Ultimate Christmas Guitar Book
Happy holidays everyone!
Warm regards,
Klaus Crow
Love the easy guitar chords for Xmas songs
How do I download the songs, chords
Hi Joe,
You can not download the song, but you can click on “chords” next to the song title and that will show you the lyrics and chords.
Hi my name is Laetittia, I’ve been trying to put four guitar chords together for a song that’s my family’s favorite, called a Christmas song.
Can you please help, thank you.
Laetittia Pannell
laetittia61@gmail.com
How do I get a refund?
I accidentally pushed the wrong button?
Thank you!
Daniel Muffoletto
Hi Daniel,
Did you buy the 50CoolBluesLicks Course?
All other products links on the website are not sold by Guitarhabits. You have to contact the website where you purchased your product.
Best,
Klaus Crow
I have a unique problem…I am missing half of my middle finger on my left hand and have a lot of trouble playing some cords. Are there alternative cords I can use? Or is my only hope to go with a left-handed guitar?
Hi Steven,
Fortunately a lot of chords are only played with three fingers. If you want to stick to the right-handed guitar you would have to become a creative guitar player and invent your own way of playing, find away around standard chords and find solutions to your obstacles. Django Reinhardt (famous gypsy guitar player) had only two fingers and Jeff Healey (famous blues guitar) was blind and developed his unique style of playing the instrument flat on his lap. So where there is a will there is a way. Hope these encouraging words will spark something inside of you.
Best,
Klaus Crow
Try these versions, worked wonders for my beginner students:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/12-christmas-songs-beginner-guitar-digital-sheet-music/21931952