Tiger in the night    (video)

 

    C ~

 

       C               F                    G        Am                                F

1. You are the tiger burning bright, deep in the forest of my night,

    Dm               F                                G                C

    you are the one who keeps me strong in this world.

               C                F                      G

    You sleep by the silent cooling streams,

      Am                                         F

    down in the darkness of my dreams,

G                 C     G         F

    all of my life I never knew

    Dm                    C           G              F - D

    you were the dream I'd see come tr.....ue,

C                     G                    C

    you are the tiger burning bright.

 

F                    C                             F                       C

     I was the one who looked so hard I could not see,

F                              C      Am       F                         G         C

    and now I could never live without the love you give to me.

 

       C                 F                     G     Am                                       F

2. I lived like a wild and lonely soul, lost in a dream beyond control,

    Dm                  F                                G                    C

    you were the one who brought me home down to earth.

             C               F                    G

    For you are the tiger burning bright,

     Am             G                  F

    deep in the forest of my night,

G                C       G        F

    all of my life I never knew,

    Dm                   C            G              F - D

    you were the dream I'd see come tr.....ue,

C                     G                     G# - C

    you are the tiger burning bri.......ght.

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Katie Melua)