Nights Are Longer

Words & Music by Tommy Deering
Recorded by The Four Freshmen, 1958


Fdim(III)  E7 Bm7   Bm7/E E7           E7/6     AM7  D9  AM7
 Nights   are long - er      since you went a - way;

 D9       Bm7-5   E7-9 E       D9    E7   A  AM7  A7
I'll grow strong - er    each pass - ing day.

   D      D9       Dm+7    Dm6          A    AM7       A7
A season turned, a lesson learned, someday I shall be wise.

       Dm      E   D9   Dm         E
I'll remember just how heartbreak feels

 D9            Bm7-5      E 
When I gaze in someone's eyes.


Fdim(III) E7  Bm7   Bm7/E E7         E7/6     AM7  D9  AM7
  I'll    be lone - some,   but I'll show no grief;

D9       Bm7-5   E7-9 E       D9  E7    A  C#m7-5  F#7
They say heart - break soon finds re - lief.

     D       D9      Dm+7       Dm6      A      C#m7-5   F#7
And then one day I'll re - al - ize that it was meant to be;

C#m7-5 Dalt D     Cdim(IV) Cdim AM7
Since  you went a - way    from me.


Instrumental interlude: first two lines of second section

     D       D9      Dm+7       Dm6      A      C#m7-5   F#7
And then one day I'll re - al - ize that it was meant to be;

C#m7-5 Dalt D     Cdim(IV) Cdim AM7
Since  you went a - way    from me.

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