Tabbed by: putthekettleon

Tuning: Standard 

Intro:     C      F - C - F - C - F - G - C

C
You can have the day, on the restless tide you play,
    F      C     F        C             F           G       C
And I will lay among the pines til the night comes rolling in.
C
Can't you see them black haired girls, they put their heels into the world,
      F      C           F      C              F            G      C
They try to hold their lovers strings, as the night comes rolling in.


            Am                              G                
Chorus: And everytime I leave the south, a word it stumbles from my mouth,
        C      Am     F
        Amen, Amen, Amen,
                 G              C
       'cuz the night comes rolling in.


  C      F  C  F  C  F  G  C

C
God must pull on the sting, so the moon can rise and sing,
    F      C        F      C             F           G       C
for every child and every beast, as the night comes rolling in.
C
And the trees they sway and weep, and that sun must go to sleep,
       F         C      F      C           F            G       C
so the crow can fly me to my love, and the night comes rolling in.


 
            Am                              G
Chorus: And everytime I leave the south, a word it stumbles from my mouth,
         C     Am     F
        Amen, amen, amen,
                  G                  C
        'cuz the night comes rolling in.