Judy Collins – The Night Comes On (Guitar)

                   C             G
I went down to the place where I knew she lay waiting

C                        D
Under the marble and the snow

         G                         C               G
I said, "Mother I'm frightened the thunder and the lightning

     C                        D
I'll never come through this alone"

      C            F           C              F
She, "Said I'll be with you my shawl wrapped around you

   C            F             C
My hand on your head when you go"

        G                   Dm
And the night came on it was very calm

  Bb                     F
I wanted the night to go on and on

        C                              G
But she said, "Go back, go back to the world"

                    C               G
We were fighting in Egypt when they signed this agreement

            C           D
That nobody else had to die

               G                     C           G
There was this terrible sound and my father went down

       C                     D
With a terrible wound in his side

          C         F           C             F
He said, "Try to go on, take my books take my gun

      C         F            C
And remember my son how they lied"

        G             Dm
And the night comes on and it's very calm

    Bb                      F
I'd like to pretend that my father was wrong

        C                             G
But you don't want to lie, not to the young

                                 C          G
We were locked in this kitchen, I took to religion

    C                           D
And wondered how long she would stay

  G         C            G
I needed so much to have nothing to touch

                 C           D
I've always been greedy that way

       C          F                C          F
But my son and my daughter climbed out of the water

         C        F           C
Crying, "Papa you promised to play"

         G                   Dm
And they lead me away to the great surprise

       Bb                   F
It's, "Papa don't peek, Papa cover your eyes"

         C                      G
And they hide, they hide in the world

                   C           G
Now I look for her always, I'm lost in this calling

                C               D
I'm tied to the threads of some prayer

         G             C          G
Saying, "When will she summon me, when will she come to me

            C        D
What must I do to prepare?"

         C           F              C             F
When she bends to my longing like a willow like a fountain

    C             F        C
She stands in the luminous air

        G                   Dm
And the night comes on it's very calm

  Bb                        F
I lie in her arms, she says, "When I'm gone

        C                  G
I'll be yours, yours for a song"

                     C            G
Now the crickets are singing, the vesper bells ringing

    C                          D
The cat's curled asleep in his chair

        G              C          G
I'll go down to Bill's Bar, I can make it that far

         C                           D
And I'll see if my friends are still there

         C             F          C             F
Yes, and here's to the few who forgive what you do

        C         F          C
And the fewer who don't even care

        G                    Dm
And the night comes on, it's very calm

   Bb                   F
I want to cross over I want to go home

        C                              G
But she says, "Go back, go back to the world"