Darkest Hour Chords & Lyrics by Arlo Guthrie

Darkest Hour

guitar chords lyrics

Arlo Guthrie

Capo 5

C
It's the tenth of January
F G Am
And I still ain't had no sleep
C F
She comes waltzing in the nighttime
G
Made of wings

C
She is dressed up like a bandit
F G Am
With a hundred sparkling rings
C F G
Looking for my company to keep
F G
Coming closer to me
C F
She doesn't say a word
F G
In the shadow of the carved rock tower
C
Where the sounds of the night
F G Am
Were the only things we heard
F G C
In my darkest hour

C
She don't want to hear no secrets
F G Am
She would guarantee me that
C F
She knows there ain't no words
G
That can describe her
C
With her white silk scarves
F G Am
And her black Spanish hat
C F G
She knows there ain't no way I can deny her
F G
Yes her blue velvet perfume
C F
Filling up the night
F G
The guards are all asleep that watch the tower
C
The moonlight held her breast
F G Am
As she easily undressed
F G C
In my darkest hour

C
Her father's in his chambers
F G Am
with his friends all gathered 'round
C F
They are plotting their enemy's
G
demise
C
With their last detail done
F G Am
They await the coming sun
C F G
While I am staring in my lover's eyes
F G
Her brothers and her sisters
C F
Are all through for tonight
F G
Pretending that they've just come into power
C
But she far most of all
F G Am
knows that they can only fall
F G C
In my darkest hour


C
Hungry wings, their melodies
F G Am
While my love awakens me
C F
In the midst of the sunburst
G
first light
C
Her hands are holding up the skies
F G Am
As I hid my opened eyes
C F
Every move just for herself
G
And that's so right
F G
Soon I went along my way
C F
With no words that could explain
F G
As she began descending to the tower
C
Her safety now concerns me
F G Am
Her circumstance to blame
F G C
In my darkest hour