Glen Campbell, Southern Nights (1977)
Key: :[E] (w: Allen Toussaint)
INTRO: [E]
VERSE 1:
[E] Southern nights;
[C#7] have you ever felt a
[F#7] southern night
[F#7]
[A] Free as a breeze, not to
[A] mention the trees
Whistling
[G#m] tunes that you knew, and loved
[B7] so
VERSE 2:
[E] Southern nights;
[C#7] just as good even when,
[F#7] closed your eyes
[F#7]
I a-
[A]-pologise
[A], to any-
[G#m]-one who can truely say
That he has
[B7] found a better way, hey
BREAK: [E]
VERSE 3:
[E] Southern skies;
[C#7] have you ever noticed,
[F#7] southern skies
[F#7]
Well
[A] it's precious beauty lies,
[A] just beyond the eye
It goes
[G#m] running through your soul, like the
[B7] stories of old
VERSE 4:
[E] Old man;
[C#7] he and his dog that walk the,
[F#7] old land
[F#7]
Every
[A] flower touched
[A] his cold hand
As he
[G#m] slowly walked by weeping
[B7] willows
[B7] Would cry for you,
[E] joy,
[E] joy
VERSE 5:
[E] Feels so good;
[C#7] feels so good it's frightening
[F#7] Wish I could,
[F#7] stop this world from fighting
[A] La da da da, da da
[A] da-da da da
Da-da-da
[G#m] da da da da, da da
[B7] da
VERSE 6:
[E] Mystery,
[C#7] like this and many others
[F#7] in the trees
[F#7]
[A] Blow in the night, in the
[B7] southern skies
BREAK: [E]
VERSE 7:
[E] Southern nights;
[C#7] they feel so good, it's frightening
[F#7] Wish I could,
[F#7] stop this world from fighting
[A] La da da da, da da
[A] da-da da da
Da-da-da
[G#m] da da da da, da da
[B7] da