The Night I Painted The Sky chords by Jimmy Buffett

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: EADGBE

THE NIGHT I PAINTED THE SKY
Jimmy Buffett
(Buffett/Kunkel/Oliver/Guth/Mayer)
1995 Margaritaville Records
August 6, 2003

Intro:
E MajorE C# minorC#m F#7F#7 BsusBsus E MajorE

Verse:
 A augmentedA                E MajorE
I came from the north escaping con vention,
  BB                 E MajorE
The modern invention that won't let me be
    A augmentedA                     G# minorG#m
To the shores of St. Maarten with my fiction addi ction,
  F#F#              BB
To restart the fire a dreamer's remedy

   A augmentedA             E MajorE
Inde pendence day and all I re member,
   BB                  E MajorE
Was a midnight rainbow that fell from the sky
   A augmentedA                G# minorG#m
As I stand on the beach I slowly sur render,
    F#F#               BB
To the child in me who can't say good bye

  E MajorE       G# minorG#m
The rockets in the air,
    A augmentedA      E MajorE
And the people every where
C# minorC#m      F#F#        BB
Put away their differences for a while
  E MajorE      G# minorG#m
Oh I am still a child
    A augmentedA         F#F#
When it comes to something wild
E MajorE      BB    A augmentedA      E MajorE
That was the night I painted the sky

 A augmentedA                E MajorE
I dug in the sand like a boy, on a mission.
  BB               E MajorE
And there in my hands a pyro's de light
 A augmentedA              E MajorE
A augmentedA bombadier, a nighttime magi cian,
 F#F#                  BB
I spark the sky as the rockets fly from view

  E MajorE       G# minorG#m
The rockets in the air,
    A augmentedA      E MajorE
And the people every where
C# minorC#m      F#F#        BB
Put away their differences for a while
  E MajorE      G# minorG#m
Oh I am still a child
    A augmentedA         F#F#
When it comes to something wild
E MajorE      BB    A augmentedA      E MajorE
That was the night I painted the sky

Instrumental:
    A augmentedA              E MajorE
Oh the mortars they roar in antici pation,
  A augmentedA                E MajorE
Pre ceding the sigh of the uplifted eyes
  A augmentedA                E MajorE
It showers us all in sulfuric sens ation,
  F#F#                BB
The colors shine in a fiery rhyme to night

Verse:
  E MajorE       G# minorG#m
The rockets in the air,
    A augmentedA      E MajorE
And the people every where
C# minorC#m      F#F#        BB
Put away their differences for a while
  E MajorE      G# minorG#m
Oh I am still a child
    A augmentedA         F#F#
When it comes to something wild
E MajorE      C# minorC#m
That was the night
  E MajorE      F#F#
Oh, that was the night
E MajorE      BB    A augmentedA      E MajorE
That was the night, I painted the sky