Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
You can have the day, on the restless tide you play,
And I will lay among the pines til the night comes rolling in.
Can't you see them black haired girls, they put their heels into the world,
They try to hold their lovers strings, as the night comes rolling in.
Chorus
And everytime I leave the south, a word it stumbles from my mouth,
Amen, Amen, Amen,
'cuz the night comes rolling in.
God must pull on the sting, so the moon can rise and sing,
for every child and every beast, as the night comes rolling in.
And the trees they sway and weep, and that sun must go to sleep,
so the crow can fly me to my love, and the night comes rolling in.
Chorus
And everytime I leave the south, a word it stumbles from my mouth,
Amen, amen, amen,
'cuz the night comes rolling in.