Song For A Winter s Night chords
Gordon Lightfoot  1967 

From the album “The Way I Feel” – 1967
Alternate version on album “Gord’s Gold” – 1975

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_for_a_Winter%27s_Night

Capo II *

[Intro]

        

[Verse 1]

            
 The lamp is b

            
urnin' low upo

           
n my table top

,
            
 The snow is s

           
oftly falling
            
 The air is st

              
ill within the

            
 silence of my

 
 room,
            
 I hear your v

            
oice softly ca

lling 

[Chorus]

            
If I could onl

          
y have you nea

r,
            
 To breathe a 

          
sigh or two...
            
 I would be ha

            
ppy just to ho

              
ld the hands I

 
 love,
            
Upon this wint

              
er night with 


you 

        

[Verse 2]

             
 The smoke is 

             
rising in the 

          
shadows overhe

ad,
            
 My glass is a

         
lmost empty
            
 I read again 

            
between the li

              
nes upon each 


page,
             
 The words of 

        
love you sent 

me 

[Chorus]

            
If I could kno

           
w within my he

art,
            
 That you were

          
 lonely  too .

   
...
            
 I would be ha

            
ppy just to ho

              
ld the hands I

 
 love,
            
Upon this wint

              
er night with 


you 

        

[Verse 3]

            
 The fire is d

             
ying now, my l

             
amp is growing

 
 dim,
             
 The shades of

            
 night are lif

  
tin'
            
 The morning l

             
ight steals ac

             
ross my window


pane,
             
 Where webs of

         
 snow are drif

tin' 

[Chorus]

            
If I could onl

          
y have you nea

r,
            
 To breathe a 

          
sigh or two...


.
            
 I would be ha

            
ppy just to ho

              
ld the hands I

 
 love,
            
Upon this wint

              
er night with 

 
you,
            
 And to be onc

             
e again with y

ou

        

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