Chords for JimmyBuffett.TheNightIPaintedtheSky.wmv

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_ [C#m] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ [G#] _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] I came from the North, _ _ escaping _ [E] convention, [B] the modern _ invention that [A] won't [B] let [Em] me be.
To [A] the shores of St.
Martin, with my fiction _ [E] addiction, _ [F#] to restart the fire, [E] _ [B] a dreamer's _
_ _ [A] remedy.
Independence Day, and all I [E] remember was a [B] midnight _ _ rainbow that fell [C#m]
[B] from [E] the
sky.
[A] As I stand on the beach, _ I slowly _ [E] surrender [F#] to the child in me who can't say [F#m] goodbye.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] The rockets in the air, [A] and the people _ [E]
everywhere, _ [C#m] put away [F#] their differences [F#m] for a while.
_ [B] _ [C#m] _ [B] [E] Oh,
I am still a child when [A] it comes to [F#] something wild.
[E] Oh, that was [B] the night _ [F#m] I [C#m] painted [B] the
[E] sky.
_ [C#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _
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_ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] I dug in the sand like a boy on [E] a mission, and [B] there in my hands, _ a [C#m] [B] pyro's [E] delight.
[A] A
_ _ _ bombardier, a nighttime [E] magician.
_ [F#] I sparked the sky as the rockets fly [A] from view.
[B] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ Rockets in the
air, [A] and the people _ [E] everywhere, _ [C#m]
put away [F#] their differences [C#] for a while.
_ [B] _ [A] _ [B] [E] Yes, I am still a child
when [A] it comes to [F#] something wild.
[E] Oh, that was [B] the night [F#m] I [B] painted the [E] sky. _ _ _
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[Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] Oh, the _ mortars, they roar
_ _ [E] _
in anticipation, _ _ [B] _ preceding the sigh of the [A] _ [B] [Em] uplifted eyes.
[A] It showers us all in _ [E] [A] sulfuric [E] sensation.
_ [F#] The
colors shine in a fiery rhyme [A] tonight.
[B] _ _
_ _ [E] The rockets in the air, [A] and the people _ [E] everywhere, [C#m] won't you put away
your [E] differences [A] for a [B] while.
_ [F#m] _ [B] _ [E] I am but a child [A] when it comes to [F#] something wild.
[E] Oh, that was the [B] night.
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[C#m] That
[G#m] was the [F#] night.
[E] Oh, that was the [C#m] night [F#m] I [E] painted [F#m]
[E] the sky.
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [E] _ Painted the sky.
[C#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _
Painted the sky. _ _ _ _
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