Chords for The Blasters - Dark Night

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How the air hangs like a dead man _ _ from a white oak tree. _ _ _
People sitting on porches _ thinking how things used to be.
_ [G] Dark [E] night.
_ _ [Em] _ [G] It's a dark [E] night.
_ _ _ [C#] Dark [E] night.
_ _ _ It's a dark night. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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The neighborhood was changing.
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[E] _ Strangers moving [G] in. _ _
[E] A new force [Em] left for a local girl.
[E] She made the eyes open.
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[A] She was young and pretty. _ _
No stranger to other men.
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But the love [Em] was being locked at night.
[E] And cold eyes drunken.
[D] I _
[B] _ _ thought these things didn't matter _ _ [D#m] anymore. _ _
[A] _ _ All that blood had been shed long ago.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ [G] It's a dark [E] night.
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He took her to [Em] the Oscar bus. _ _
[E] He played his love to her.
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[E] They thought it was [Em] their secret. _ _
[E] But somehow they knew where they were.
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[A] He held her so close.
He asked about _ [E] dreams. _ _
[Em] And a bullet from a pencil box _
[E] made the young girl scream. _ _ _
[B] _ I thought these things didn't happen _ _ [G#m] anymore.
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_ _ _ All that blood had been shed long ago. _
Dark night.
_ _ _ [G] It's a [E] dark night. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It's a dark night.
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