Intro: The first couplet's chords can be used as an intro.

1st Couplet
B5     A5        B5
Upon a darkened night
   G5        D5        G5                A5
the flame of love was burning in my breast
B5       A5       B5
And by a lantern bright
  G5      D5            G5      A5      D5
I fled my house while all in quiet rest

2nd Couplet
B5       G5      D5
Shrouded by the night
G5          D5       G5      D5        A5
and by the secret stair I quickly fled
B5           G5        D5
The veil concealed my eyes
B5           G5    D5       A5       D5
while all within lay quiet as the dead

Chorus
B5           A5       B5
Oh night thou was my guide
B5            G5      D5         A5     B5
oh night more loving than the rising sun
B5            G5          D5
Oh night that joined the lover
          D5
to the beloved one
B5           G5       D5      A5      D5
transforming each of them into the other

 Upon that misty night

in secrecy, beyond such mortal sight

Without a guide or light

than that which burned so deeply in my heart

That fire t'was led me on

and shone more bright than of the midday sun

To where he waited still

it was a place where no one else could come

Chorus

Within my pounding heart

which kept itself entirely for him

He fell into his sleep

beneath the cedars all my love I gave

And by the fortress walls

the wind would brush his hair against his brow

And with its smoothest hand

caressed my every sense it would allow

Chorus
 B5     A5        B5
I lost myself to him
     G5       D5     G5              A5
and laid my face upon my lovers breast
 B5            A5        B5
And care and grief grew dim
  G5        D5        G5      A5        D5
as in the mornings mist became the light


B5           G5       D5         A5      B5
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
B5          G5       D5          A5       B5
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair
B5          G5       D5          A5      D5
There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair.