This version of a popular Christmas tune features a walking bass under the melody. Although it's based on "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," I got the idea from an episode of Mr. Bean. I haven't indicated it in the score, but the 4/4 meter is to be felt in swing time. The bass walks along at a steady quarter-note rhythm and the melody does, too, but between the beats. If you've never tried playing a walking bass line under a melody, you'll probably find this quite challenging (the key makes it difficult, too). Although the fretting-hand fingering in the first measure is a little tricky (raise your little finger as soon as you finish playing the fourth-string F sharp that starts the piece), the rest is a lot easier, and, insofar as the striking hand, you can play the whole thing with just your thumb, index and middle fingers. For the icing on the cake, you can use your ring or little finger to tap on the guitar body on beats two and four (think snare-drum accompaniment). Remember to keep your fretting thumb on the neck and to play rest strokes with your striking-hand thumb (after playing a note, it comes to rest on the next string). Measures 5-8 are just a repetition of 1-4, so add your own stuff there. The numbers in the standard notation refer to the fretting-hand fingering, and the diagonal lines indicate that you should slide your finger along the fretboard. Roll out that final chord with your thumb and the fretting-hand fingering that immediately precedes it. Happy holidays!