Nights In White Satin chords by The Moody Blues

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN
Moody Blues

Em        D    Em           D
 Nights in white satin    ...
C       G     F          Em
 Letters I've written    ...
Em      D      Em          D
 Beauty I'd always missed  ..
C        G     F         Em
 Just what the truth is   I ...


CHORUS
    A        C
Cause I love you, ...
      Em      D   Em    D
Ohhh how I ...

Gazing at people, some hand in ....


CHORUS

CHORUS


Peace, love, and soul,
Paul Zimmerman

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Nights In White Satin
Moody Blues

Slow strum in 3 time:

Am         G       Am          G
  Nights in white satin,      ...
F         C       Bb          Am
  Letters I've  written,     ..
Am         G       Am          G
  Beauty  I've  always missed,  ...
F         C       Bb          Am
  Just what the truth is,    I ...

[Chorus]
D         D       F           F
Love you.         Yes, I ...
Am         G       Am          G
Love you......

[Solo, see below]

Gazing at people, some hand ....

[Chorus]
[Chorus]

==============================================================
Solo:
     Am         G
E|------|-------------7--8--|-7--------------7--|
B|------|-10----------------|----10-8-----10----|
G|---9--|-------------------|-------------------|
D|------|-------------------|-------------------|
A|------|-------------------|-------------------|
E|------|-------------------|-------------------|
     .    .     .    .

  F          E
E|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-10-8--------8--10-|-9-----------------|
G|-------10----------|----------9-----9--|
D|-------------------|-------------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|
  .    .     .    .

  Am         G
E|-------------7--8--|-10-8--7-----8--10-|
B|-10----------------|-------------------|
G|-------------------|-------------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|
  .    .     .    .

  F          E
E|-8--7--------7--8--|-7-----------------|
B|-------10----------|-------------------|
G|-------------------|-------------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|
  .    .     .    .

  Am         F
E|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-------------------|-------------------|
G|-9--------------9--|-7-----------------|
D|-------------------|----10-7-----7--10-|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|
  .    .     .    .

  Am         F
E|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-------------------|-------------------|
G|-9--------------9--|-7-----------------|
D|-------------------|----10-7-----7--10-|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|
  .    .     .    .


E|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-------------------|-------------------|
G|-7-----------9--10-|-9-----------9-----|
D|-------------------|----------------10-|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|
  .    .     .    .


E|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-------------------|-------------------|
G|-7-----------9--10-|-9-----------------|
D|-------------------|-------------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|
  .    .     .    .

Am   G   Am

=============================================================
I arranged the song in Am using barre chords to match the
original chord centers:

Am: 577555
G: 355433
F: 133211
C: 332010
Bb: x13331 or 688766


While NIWS is generally played with a strum (on solo
guitar) to imitate the original sleepy sound of the Melotron,
the song can be rearranged slightly for a more delicate sound
using arpegiated chords:

  Am (barre 5):
E||---------------------------|--
B||-------5-----------5-------|--
G||-----5---5-------5---5-----|--
D||---7-------7---7-------7---|--   etc, etc
A||-------------7-------------|--
E||-5-------------------------|--


--
Douglas French
dfrench@site.gmu.edu