The nights Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Em]
Her [Am]skin was

[Verse 1]
the color
[Em]Of the mountains' first winter [Am]snow
His skin [Em]was the color
Of the [Am]hot sun s[Em]ummer [Am]glow
And they [Em]met by a river
[Am]called Okemah
In an [Em]August of another [Am]time
[Em]She fell in love w[Am]ith this red man
[Em]And left her people [Am]behind
And she [Em]learned these [Am]things

[Verse 2]
The [Am]ways [Em]of a red [F]man [Em]are lonel[Am]y
And his woman [Em]can expect little [Am]more
And [Em]a day filled with hard work and sorrow
[Am]And so she l[Em]ived[Am] for[F#dim][Am]
[Em]The nights, the [Am]nights

[Verse 3]
And they [Em]followed his [Am]tribe
On a [F]hard trail [Em]to the Dakotas far [Am]away
And they hunted [Em]a big buf[Am]falo
And they heard the [Em]old chief s[Am]ay
The [Em]white man has walked
here be[Am]fore us
And killed buf[Em]falo for their [Am]hides
And [Em]so this winter our
women an[Am]d children
Will feel much hunger [C]inside
[Am]And she lear[Em]ned these thin[Am]gs

[Verse 4]
The [Am]ways [Em]of a red man [Am]are lonely
And his wo[Em]man can expect l[Am]ittle more
Than a day [F]filled with hard
[Am]work and sorrow
And so [Em]she learns [Am]to live for
[Em]The nights, the nights
[Fm]

[Verse 5]
That winter they [F]died by
the [D#]hundreds
The people [Fm]of this red man's t[D#]ribe
[C]She[Fm] walked the cold ground
[F]And cursed the white man[Fm]
Who killed buffalo [Em]for their hides
And they [Fm]buried their mothers [D#]and fathers
And [Fm]their children they loved [D#]so
[F]They pra[Fm]yed the son God[F] wil[Eb]l come soon
An[Fm]d melt [F]the Dakota snow
[Fm]

[Verse 6]
[D#]
The [Fm]ways of a red man [D#]are [F]lonely
And [D#]his wo[Fm]man can expect little m[D#]ore
Than a [F]day filled [Fm]with hard
[C]work and [F]sorrow
And so she [Fm]learns to live [Em]for[D#]
The [Fm]nights, [F]the[C] ni[F]ghts
[F#m]

[Verse 7]
And the spring came [D]early to
[Bm]the Dakotas that year
And [F#m]the buffalo [Bm]numbered ten times ten
[F#m]They filled their stomachs[Bm]
Made their [F#m]clothes and started
their lives [Bm]again
And she [F#m]bore her lover b[Bm]oy child
Fulfilled the [F#m]promise of [Bm]spring
And from [F#m]old comes new
[Em]And new [D]is l[Esus4]ife and[Bm]
[F#m]life is an eternal t[Bm]hing
And [F#m]she learned these things[Bm]

[Verse 8]
[Bm]The ways o[F#m]f a re[Bm]d man are lonely
And his [F#m]woman can expect [Bm]little more
Than [F#m]a day with hard [Bm]work and sorrow
And [F#m]so she learns to [Bm]live for
The [F#m]nights, [Bm]the nigh[F#m]ts

[Outro 1]
[F#m]