Chords for The Night I Painted The Sky

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_ I came from [A] the North _ escaping [E] convention, _ [B] the modern invention _ [A] that won't let me [Em]
be.
To [A] the shores of St.
Martin with my fiction [E] addiction, _ [F#] to restart the fire, _ [B] a dreamer's
remedy, _ _ _ Independence [A]
Day.
And all I [E]
remember was a [B] midnight _ rainbow that fell from [E] the sky.
As I stand on the beach, I slowly _ surrender [F#] to the child in me who can't say [F#] goodbye.
_ _ [B] _
_ [E] The rockets in the air [A] and the people [E] everywhere put [C#m] away [F#] their differences for a while.
_ [B] _
_ [E] Oh, I am still a child [A] when it comes to [F#] something wild.
[E] Oh, that was [B] the night I [F#] painted the [E] sky.
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_ _ _ _ [A] I dug in the sand like a [F#] boy on [E] a mission.
_ [B] And there in my hands, a pyro's [E] delight, [A] a _ _ bombardier, a nighttime [E] magician.
_ [F#] I sparked the sky as the rockets fly from view.
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Rockets in the air and [A] the people [E] everywhere _ [C#m] put away [F#] their differences [B] for a while.
_ _ _ [E] Yes, I am still a child [A] when it comes to [F#] something wild.
[E] Oh, that was the [B] night [F#m] I painted the [E] sky. _ _
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_ _ _ Oh, [A] the mortars, they roar in [E] _ _ anticipation, _ [B] _
preceding the sigh of the _ [Em] uplifted eyes.
[A] It showers us all in _ sulfuric [E] sensation.
_ [F#] The colors shine in a fiery rhyme tonight.
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] The rockets in the air [A] and the people [E] everywhere won't [C#m] you put away your [E] differences [B] for a while.
_ [B] _ _ _ [E]
I am but a child [A] when it comes to something [F#] wild.
[E] Oh, that was the [B] night.
_ [C#m]
That was the [F#] night.
[E] Oh, that was [C#] the night [F#m] I painted [E] the sky.
_ [C#m] _
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Painted [E] the sky.
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Painted the sky.
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