Useful Knowledge for the Season - #1

[acmespaceship]

You can hear Leon Redbone do it here.
You can do it (in a different key) like this:

D.....................................G .........D .........................E7
How’d you like to spend Christ-mas on Christmas Island?

..................A7.................................................................D...........A7
How’d you like to spend the holiday away across the sea?

........................................G..........D ........................E7
How’d you like to spend Christ-mas on Christmas Island?

.................A7.........................................................................D.......D7
How’d you like to hang a stocking on a great big coconut tree?

.....................................G .......................................D
How’d you like to stay up late like the islanders do?

............................E7 ...................................................A7
Wait for Santa to sail in with your presents in a ca-noe?

...............................G ........D ..........................E7
If you ever spend Christ-mas on Christmas Island

................A7.........................................................................................D..G ..D
You will never stray for everyday your Christmas dreams come true

And if anyone knows a better way to format text spacing for LJ, I would greatly appreciate guidance -- chord spacing in the online editor does not come out the same when posted to the journal. For that matter, anyone know a good place to post PDF files for other people to download? Free? Mahalo!

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I think in the past that I have used the "pre" tag (preformatted), which usually has the effect of rendering text in a monospaced font. Here's an example where I used this to preserve ASCII graphics. Let's try:

 
   ___   O~~*        /_) ' / /   /_/ '  ,   ,  ' ,_  _           \|/
  /  / - ~ -~~~~~~~~/_) / / /   / / / (_) (_) / / / _\~~~~~~~~~~~zap!
 /__//       \                       (_) (_)                    / | \
     |       |    Bill Higgins  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
     \       /   
       -   -      Internet:                          higgins@fnal.gov
         ~       

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Seems to work!

Set your editor to Courier and blaze away. Paste your text into Livejournal, precede with <pre>, follow with </pre>, and Bob's yer uncle.

[acmespaceship.livejournal.com]

Many thanks! Bob sure gets around, doesn't he?
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/bobs.html