Tom: G
Introdução:
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Like some night bird, homeward wingin'. He seeks the sheltered nest
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Like the sailor's lost horizon. He needs some place to rest
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The songs that he's been singin'. No longer make much sense
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And those strangers' cold perceptions they've killed his confidence.
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Nightingale. She sails away upon a sea of song
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Nightingale. She serenades his lonely, lonely life along
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When his tired voice is broken, his golden hope is gone
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She makes a lost soul's simple longing, somehow not so wrong
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Nightingale Nightingale
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He was strong, but he was taken. By the thought of his success
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Those spotlight shadows, how they lured him and took him like all the rest
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But that old dream don't look good now no, it don't seem quite the same
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He needs to hear a tender word, won't you sing him home again
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Nightingale. She sails away upon a sea of song
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Nightingale. She serenades his lonely, lonely life along
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When his strength is slowly goin' his pride is all but gone
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She makes a foolish dreamer listen to one last song
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Nightingale Nightingale
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