Glen Campbell, Southern Nights (1977)
Key: :[A] (w: Allen Toussaint)
INTRO: [A]
VERSE 1:
[A] Southern nights;
[F#7] have you ever felt a
[B7] southern night
[B7]
[D] Free as a breeze, not to
[D] mention the trees
Whistling
[C#m] tunes that you knew, and loved
[E7] so
VERSE 2:
[A] Southern nights;
[F#7] just as good even when,
[B7] closed your eyes
[B7]
I a-
[D]-pologise
[D], to any-
[C#m]-one who can truely say
That he has
[E7] found a better way, hey
BREAK: [A]
VERSE 3:
[A] Southern skies;
[F#7] have you ever noticed,
[B7] southern skies
[B7]
Well
[D] it's precious beauty lies,
[D] just beyond the eye
It goes
[C#m] running through your soul, like the
[E7] stories of old
VERSE 4:
[A] Old man;
[F#7] he and his dog that walk the,
[B7] old land
[B7]
Every
[D] flower touched
[D] his cold hand
As he
[C#m] slowly walked by weeping
[E7] willows
[E7] Would cry for you,
[A] joy,
[A] joy
VERSE 5:
[A] Feels so good;
[F#7] feels so good it's frightening
[B7] Wish I could,
[B7] stop this world from fighting
[D] La da da da, da da
[D] da-da da da
Da-da-da
[C#m] da da da da, da da
[E7] da
VERSE 6:
[A] Mystery,
[F#7] like this and many others
[B7] in the trees
[B7]
[D] Blow in the night, in the
[E7] southern skies
BREAK: [A]
VERSE 7:
[A] Southern nights;
[F#7] they feel so good, it's frightening
[B7] Wish I could,
[B7] stop this world from fighting
[D] La da da da, da da
[D] da-da da da
Da-da-da
[C#m] da da da da, da da
[E7] da