Chords for Lucy Kaplansky - Ten Year Night

_ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] I'm very, very [F#m] blessed.
I'm blessed to be my daughter's mom.
I sound like Dr.
Laura, my [A] kid's mom. _ _
I am my kid's mom.
[C#m] _ _ [F#] I'm also [A] blessed because [C#m] I met my husband [A] one night when I was singing at this folk
club in New York, _ and we've [C#m] been together since that night, and that was [F#m] 24 years ago.
Thank you very [C#m] much.
I wrote this song around the [A] 11th anniversary of that night, but as I was writing this song,
I realized pretty quickly that 10 sounded better than 11, so it's a little revisionist.
_ _ [C#m] It's called [F#m] Tenure Night. _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ There is [C#m] no one else [F#] around the road who's [D] quiet.
The only [A] sound is wind that [C#m] sounds like cars, with [A] sunlight breathing.
_ The desert [G#] air is hot and [F#] dry, two lanes weaving earth and [A] sky.
Stars are [G#] all that's keeping [A] time to morning.
_ And I turn [C#m] and look beside me, [F#] you're sleeping [F#m] like a baby.
You haven't heard a word that [A] I've been saying.
_ _ The [C#m] way you look tonight, [F#] fast [F#m] asleep in the dashboard light while I can't speak. _
[A] _ That's how I feel. _ _ _ _
_ _ Open your eyes, look at me.
Oh, [G#] look at me. _ _
[A] _ _ Open your eyes, _ _ look at [E] me. _ _ _
[F#] Cause [D] I [A] have _ [E] held this [F#m] love for you before [A] this ten [E] year night [F#m] is through.
I'm [E] telling you, take [A] it from [C#m] me.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ [A]
Take it from me. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ We're ten years [C#m] older, I know we are.
[F#m] Then the night we met in the downtown bar, you [A] thought I was some kind of star.
That's what you said.
Felt your [C#m] skin, felt the [F#] heat.
You pulled me [A] out to the [C#m] street and kissed me there till I was [A] weak.
Cause I asked you to.
Later on [C#m] we contemplored [F#] two flights above [A] the grocery store.
[C#m] Felt things I never felt [A] before.
_ _ _ [A] _ I'm still of you.
Open your eyes, look at me.
Oh, look [E] at me.
_ _ [A] _
_ Open your eyes, _ _ look at [E] me.
_ _ [F#m] _
Cause [D] I [A] have [E] held this [F#] love for you [A] before this [E] ten year [F#m] night is [F#] through.
[G#] I'm telling you, [A] take it from me.
[F#m] _ _ Take it [A] from _ me. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Going 80 on [F#m] the highway.
_ [E] We're all rushing _ somewhere.
[A] _ _ But the way I feel [F#m] tonight.
_ [E] It's like I'm _ _ already [A] _ there.
Open your eyes, look at me.
Oh, [E] look at me.
_ _ [A] _ _ Open your eyes, _ look at me.
Look [E] at me.
_ [F#m] Cause [A] I have held [F#m] this love for you before this ten [E] year [F#] night is [F#m] through.
Oh, I'm telling you, telling [G#] you.
[A] Take it from me.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[C#m] Take it from _ [A] me. _
Take it from [C#m] me.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ [A] Take it from me. _
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