How to Play Shake Up Christmas on Guitar?

Train - Shake Up Christmas can be played in the key of C using the C, Dm, F chords. For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D. For Dm, To play Dm, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 1 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute G, B. For F, To play F, barre fret 1 from the B string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D, G. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play Shake Up Christmas with the ↓-↓↑-↑↓↑ strumming pattern.

Train - Shake Up Christmas Chords

Chord reference C, Dm, F

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↑-↑↓↑

Ho ho [C]ho Shake up the happiness, [Dm]wake up the happiness[F] Shake up the [C]happiness, it’s Christmas Time

There’s a story that I was told and I wanna tell the world before I get too old I don’t remember it so let’s December it and reassemble it oh yeah [C]Once upon a time in a town like [Dm]this a little girl made a great big wish [F]To fill the world of happiness [C]and be on Santa’s magic list

Shake it [C]up, shake up the happiness, wake [Dm]it up, wake up the happiness [F]C’mon y’all, it’s Christmas [C]Time Shake it [C]up, shake up the happiness, wake [Dm]it up, wake up the happiness [F]C’mon Y’all, it’s Christmas [C]Time Ho ho [Dm]ho, Ho ho [F]ho, It’s Christmas [C]Time

At the same time miles away a little boy made a wish that day That the world would be okay and Santa Claus would hear him say “I got [C]dreams and I got love, I got my [Dm]feet on the ground and family above, Can [F]you send some happiness with my best to the [C]rest of the people of the east and the west.”

[C]And maybe every once in a while [Dm]you’ll give my grandma a reason to smile [F]This the season with smile It’s [C]cold but we’ll be freezing in style [C]Let me meet a girl one day [Dm]that wants to spread some love this way [F]We can let some souls run free [F]and she can open some happiness with me

I know you’re [C]out there, I hear your [Dm]reindeer, I see the [F]snow where your boots [C]have been I’m gonna [C]show them some day we’ll [Dm]know then, Then love will [F]grow and believe again

Shake it [C]up, shake it [C]up, shake up the [Dm]happiness, Wake it up, wake up the [F]happiness, c’mon y’all, it’s Christmas [C]Time

Shake it [C]up, shake up the happiness, wake [Dm]it up, wake up the happiness [F]C’mon y’all, it’s Christmas [C]Time Ho ho [Dm]ho, Ho ho [F]ho, It’s Christmas [C]Time Shake it [C]up, shake up the happiness, wake [Dm]it up, wake up the happiness [F]C’mon y’all, it’s Christmas [C]Time

[C]Shake it up, Shake up the [Dm]happiness, Wake it up, Wake up the happiness [F]C’mon y’all, it’s Christmas [C]Time Ho ho [C]ho, ho ho [Dm]ho, ho ho [F]ho, it’s Christmas [C]Time

Artist Train

Album Save Me, San Francisco

Genres Pop, Pop Rock, Rock

Year 2009

Key C

Train - Shake Up Christmas can be played in the key of C using the C, Dm, F chords.

For C, To play C, press fret 1 on the B string with finger 2, let low E, G, high E ring open, mute A, D.
For Dm, To play Dm, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 1 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute G, B.
For F, To play F, barre fret 1 from the B string to the high E string with finger 1, press fret 1 on the low E string with finger 4, let A ring open, mute D, G.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play Shake Up Christmas with the ↓-↓↑-↑↓↑ strumming pattern.