Glen Campbell, Southern Nights (1977)
Key: :[C] (w: Allen Toussaint)
INTRO: [C]
VERSE 1:
[C] Southern nights;
[A7] have you ever felt a
[D7] southern night
[D7]
[F] Free as a breeze, not to
[F] mention the trees
Whistling
[Em] tunes that you knew, and loved
[G7] so
VERSE 2:
[C] Southern nights;
[A7] just as good even when,
[D7] closed your eyes
[D7]
I a-
[F]-pologise
[F], to any-
[Em]-one who can truely say
That he has
[G7] found a better way, hey
BREAK: [C]
VERSE 3:
[C] Southern skies;
[A7] have you ever noticed,
[D7] southern skies
[D7]
Well
[F] it's precious beauty lies,
[F] just beyond the eye
It goes
[Em] running through your soul, like the
[G7] stories of old
VERSE 4:
[C] Old man;
[A7] he and his dog that walk the,
[D7] old land
[D7]
Every
[F] flower touched
[F] his cold hand
As he
[Em] slowly walked by weeping
[G7] willows
[G7] Would cry for you,
[C] joy,
[C] joy
VERSE 5:
[C] Feels so good;
[A7] feels so good it's frightening
[D7] Wish I could,
[D7] stop this world from fighting
[F] La da da da, da da
[F] da-da da da
Da-da-da
[Em] da da da da, da da
[G7] da
VERSE 6:
[C] Mystery,
[A7] like this and many others
[D7] in the trees
[D7]
[F] Blow in the night, in the
[G7] southern skies
BREAK: [C]
VERSE 7:
[C] Southern nights;
[A7] they feel so good, it's frightening
[D7] Wish I could,
[D7] stop this world from fighting
[F] La da da da, da da
[F] da-da da da
Da-da-da
[Em] da da da da, da da
[G7] da
