Tuning: Standard

Intro: Am E F G x1

[ G ] Darlin' it's so [ Am ] dark
In this [ E ] house
'Cept for this [ F ] light
 My slow candle [ G ] burning

And I know you're [ Am ] somewhere
I always did [ E ] feel it
I got a [ F ] new song
You might never [ G ] hear

Chorus:

G?odnight, [ C ] Irene
I got your [ Am ] trouble
I read your [ F ] letters
You sent like a [ G ] bomb
And when you're [ C ] gone
We're all gonna [ Am ] miss you
Your perfume like [ F ] cigarettes and the sea
My name that you [ G ] always wore like grief
G?odnight, [ C ] Irene

I grew up kind of [ Am ] lonesome
The saint of the [ E ] sinners
The voice of the [ F ] dogs
You find in the [ G ] rain

So I just keep [ Am ] working
I just keep [ E ] driving
Nobody writes [ F ]
The blues [ G ] anymore

[Chorus]

And in my [ G ] mind
There's a [ C ] dream
Where the [ F ] telephone [ C ] rang
Just [ G ] before the [ C ] ring
Took a [ F ] vow and [ Am ] abandoned her [ C ] hand
In a [ G ] closet where [ C ] white dresses [ F ] hang
Were [ Am ] eyes declaring [ G ] war

[Chorus]