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Southern nights have you ever felt a Southern night
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Free as a breeze not to mention the trees
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Whistling tunes that you know and love so.
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Southern nights just as good even when closed your eyes
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I apologize
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to any one who can truly say he has found a better way,
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Hey hey.
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Southern skies have you ever noticed Southern skies?
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It's precious beauty lies just beyond the eye
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It goes running thru your soul like the stories of old.
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Old man he and his dog they walk the old land
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Ev'ry flower touches his cold hand
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As he slowly walked by, weeping willows cry for joy, joy.
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Feel so good feel so good it's fright'ning
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Wish I could stop this world from fighting
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La dah dah dahhh dahhhh dot dah dah dah dahhh dahhh
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Dot dah dah dot dahhh dah dot dahhhh
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Mysteries like this and many other in the trees
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Blow in the night in the Southern skies
Coda: G D E7 D9 G D E7 D9 A G A7 A4/7
Composição de Allen Toussaint