Not Dark Yet chords by Jimmy Lafave

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
C majorC           FF            C majorC
  Shadows are falling and I've been here all day
C majorC            FF        C majorC
  It's too hot to sleep time is running away
G+G        FF    A minorAm   G+G   C majorC
  Feel like my soul has turned into steel
G+G   A minorAm            G+G     FF        C majorC
   I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
G+G          FF       A minorAm  G+G   C majorC
  There's not even room enough to be anywhere
G+G   A minorAm         G+G
      It's not dark yet
FF             C majorC
  but it's gettin' there

Verse 2:

C majorC               FF          C majorC
  Well, my sense of humanity ... has gone down the drain
C majorC                  FF         C majorC
  And every beautiful face I find ... some kind of pain
G+G           FF   A minorAm   G+G     C majorC
  She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
G+G   A minorAm        G+G   FF        C majorC
   She put down in writing what was in her mind
G+G          FF     A minorAm   G+G   C majorC
  I just don't see why...why I should even care
G+G   A minorAm       G+G
   It's not dark yet
FF             C majorC
  but it's gettin' there


Verse 3:
C majorC               FF            C majorC
  Well, I've been to London ... I've been to gay Paree
C majorC              FF          C majorC
  I've followed the river ... and I got to the sea
G+G        FF    G+G        A minorAm  G+G   C majorC
  I've been down on the bottom ...this world full of lies
G+G   A minorAm            G+G     FF    C majorC
   I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes
G+G          FF     A minorAm  G+G   C majorC
  Sometimes my burden they're so hard to bear
G+G   A minorAm      G+G
   It's not dark yet
FF             C majorC
  but it's gettin' there

Bridge:

C majorC C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC G+G A minorAm FF G+G


Verse 4:
C majorC                   FF       C majorC
  I was born here and I'll die here ... against my will
C majorC                  FF             C majorC
  I know it looks like I'm moving ... but I'm only standing still
G+G           FF       A minorAm  G+G  C majorC
  Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb
G+G   A minorAm               G+G     FF        C majorC
    I don't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
G+G           FF    A minorAm  G+G   C majorC
  I don't even hear the ... murmur of a prayer

G+G   A minorAm       G+G
   It's not dark yet
FF           C majorC
  but it's gettin' there


Outro:

C majorC C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC G+G A minorAm FF G+G C majorC