Crazy Nightingale Chords
Crazy Nightingale by Craig Bickhardt is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, B and G#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse
E A
Once by the white sea on the rocky coast of Wales
E B
There was a sad sound in the song of the nightingales
E A
Above the bright fields, yours was the wilder song
E B
From a dark wood, a plaint so clear and strong
E A E
The pale, unfettered breast against a thorn
A B
How you loved to make sweet music pour
A B
Here's to all the hangers-on
E B
Another round of ale
E A G#m
You sang your lonely life away
A B E
Crazy nightingale
Verse
E A
I've heard of one bird who sang to an ancient age
E B
That was in china, he lived in a bamboo cage
E A
His voice was silver but yours was smooth, warm stone
E B
On the sidewalk singing "Molly Malone”
A B
Here's to all the hangers-on
E B
Another round of ale
E A G#m
You sang your lonely life away
A B E
Crazy nightingale
Verse
E
It was always the madness or the drink
B
You were driven to
E
I guess in the end those were the bars
B
You were singing through
A B
Here's to all the hangers-on
E B
Another round of ale
E A G#m
You sang your lonely life away
A B E
Crazy nightingale