Glen Campbell, Southern Nights (1977)
Key: :[G] (w: Allen Toussaint)
INTRO: [G]
VERSE 1:
[G] Southern nights;
[E7] have you ever felt a
[A7] southern night
[A7]
[C] Free as a breeze, not to
[C] mention the trees
Whistling
[Bm] tunes that you knew, and loved
[D7] so
VERSE 2:
[G] Southern nights;
[E7] just as good even when,
[A7] closed your eyes
[A7]
I a-
[C]-pologise
[C], to any-
[Bm]-one who can truely say
That he has
[D7] found a better way, hey
BREAK: [G]
VERSE 3:
[G] Southern skies;
[E7] have you ever noticed,
[A7] southern skies
[A7]
Well
[C] it's precious beauty lies,
[C] just beyond the eye
It goes
[Bm] running through your soul, like the
[D7] stories of old
VERSE 4:
[G] Old man;
[E7] he and his dog that walk the,
[A7] old land
[A7]
Every
[C] flower touched
[C] his cold hand
As he
[Bm] slowly walked by weeping
[D7] willows
[D7] Would cry for you,
[G] joy,
[G] joy
VERSE 5:
[G] Feels so good;
[E7] feels so good it's frightening
[A7] Wish I could,
[A7] stop this world from fighting
[C] La da da da, da da
[C] da-da da da
Da-da-da
[Bm] da da da da, da da
[D7] da
VERSE 6:
[G] Mystery,
[E7] like this and many others
[A7] in the trees
[A7]
[C] Blow in the night, in the
[D7] southern skies
BREAK: [G]
VERSE 7:
[G] Southern nights;
[E7] they feel so good, it's frightening
[A7] Wish I could,
[A7] stop this world from fighting
[C] La da da da, da da
[C] da-da da da
Da-da-da
[Bm] da da da da, da da
[D7] da