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