Arlo Guthrie – Darkest Hour (Guitar)

C                    
It's the tenth of January

      F           G      Am
And I still ain't had no sleep

C                         F
She comes waltzing in the nighttime

        G
Made of wings

       C                       
She is dressed up like a bandit

       F       G         Am
With a hundred sparkling rings

C              F          G
Looking for my company to keep

F             G
Coming closer to me

    C             F
She doesn't say a word

       F                         G
In the shadow of the carved rock tower

          C                       
Where the sounds of the night

         F    G         Am
Were the only things we heard

F     G       C
In my darkest hour

C         
She don't want to hear no secrets

          F     G      Am
She would guarantee me that

    C                    F
She knows there ain't no words

         G
That can describe her

         C
With her white silk scarves

        F     G       Am
And her black Spanish hat

    C                    F         G
She knows there ain't no way I can deny her

        F           G
Yes her blue velvet perfume

C              F
Filling up the night

    F                                    G
The guards are all asleep that watch the tower

    C
The moonlight held her breast

       F    G   Am
As she easily undressed

F     G       C
In my darkest hour

C  
Her father's in his chambers

         F           G        Am
with his friends all gathered 'round

         C              F
They are plotting their enemy's 

G
demise

           C
With their last detail done

     F         G      Am
They await the coming sun

      C            F             G
While I am staring in my lover's eyes

    F                G
Her brothers and her sisters

        C           F
Are all through for tonight

F                                      G
Pretending that they've just come into power

    C
But she far most of all

           F        G    Am
knows that they can only fall

F     G       C
In my darkest hour

C  
Hungry wings, their melodies

         F      G     Am
While my love awakens me

       C            F
In the midst of the sunburst 

      G
first light

              C
Her hands are holding up the skies

     F      G      Am
As I hid my opened eyes

      C                F        
Every move just for herself

              G
And that's so right

       F             G
Soon I went along my way

        C                F
With no words that could explain

   F                           G
As she began descending to the tower

    C
Her safety now concerns me

    F     G         Am
Her circumstance to blame

F     G       C
In my darkest hour