Artist: Camper van Beethoven
Song:   Come on Darkness
Album:  Key Lime Pie
Tuning: Standard


Note: Play G as a bar chord


INTRO:
  G   G   F#m  B 
  Em  A7  D A  C

VERSE 1:
          G       G            F#m      B
  Come on slowly,    won't you rise and come
         Em          A7              D    A      C
  To the top of this hill, where the cool breeze spills
                G     G                     F#m     B
  Now that it's dusk,   someone drives them off the street
          Em              A7  D    A  C
  Let the pavements cool,     come on now
             G      G                    F#m           B
  So come on love,     and lay your body down, next to mine
                    Em            A7      D        A      C
  'Cause what we're longing for,      has withered in the light


CHORUS:
          F#m        F#m                G       G
  Come on darkness,       Lay your body down on us
             Em              Em                 A             Asus2
  We've been calling you for so long now, we're weary of your name
          F#m         F#m         G           G
  Come on blackness,       let me breathe you in
                   Em             Em          A            Asus4  A
  'Cause with this clattering and din, we are calling you


VERSE 2:
  G                   G            F#m         B
     Brother have you got a smoke,     or baby have you got a dime
  Em                  A7     D   A           C
     Seems like we're all,     a little down on our luck
  G                     G            F#m         B
     And baby if you're workin' now,      out in Bakersfield
  Em         A7          D       A        C
     At some honky-tonk,    they call the Wagon Wheel


CHORUS:
         F#m    F#m              G       G
  I feel swept,     and you feel rolled away
             Em        Em    A7       A7sus2
  So come on darkness,     I need you today
             F#m         F#m         G           G 
  So come on blackness,       let me breathe you in
                   Em             Em        A7
  'Cause with this clattering and din, I am calling you


FINALE:
          G         Em  
  Come on darkness
  A7      G
  Come on darkness


--crookedpath