Nightingale chords by Carole King

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D
A
Bm
Asus4
F#m
Em

Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
Like some night
D 
bird homeward wingin
G 
D 
He seeks the sheltered nest
G 
D 
Like the sailor's lost horizon,
G 
D 
He needs some place to rest
A 
The songs that he's been singin'
Bm 
G 
Asus4 
No longer make much sense
G 
And those stranger's cold
F#m 
perceptions
Em 
Asus4 
They've killed his confidence
D 
Nightingale,
G 
she sails away upon a sea of song
D 
Nightingale, she serenades his lonely,
G 
lonely life along
Em 
Bm 
When his tired voice is broken
Em 
Bm 
His golden hope is gone
Em 
She makes a lost soul's
Bm 
simple longing
Asus4 
somehow not      so wrong

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Interlude 1

Nightingale, nightingale

Verse 2
G 
D 
He was strong, but he was taken
G 
D 
By the thought of his success
G 
Those spotlights shadows
D 
G 
How they lured him and
D 
took him like all the rest
A 
But that old dream don't look good now
Bm 
Asus4 
No  it don't    seem quite the same
G 
F#m 
He needs to hear a tender word
Em 
Won't you sing him home
Asus4 
again
D 
Nightingale, she sails away
G 
up on a sea of song
D 
Nightingale, she serenades his lonely,
G 
lonely life along
Em 
Bm 
When his strength is slowly going,
Em 
Bm 
His pride is all but gone
Em 
She makes a foolish dreamer
Bm 
Asus4 
listen to one      last song
D 
G 
Nightingale ooh sing
D 
sweet nightingale
G 
Oh, na, na, na, na
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G 
D 
Nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale