{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1749476,"song":"Midnight Star","artist":"Kate Wolf","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11377380-midnight-star-chords-by-kate-wolf/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1749476?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"Kate Wolf - Midnight Star\r\n\r\n\r\nCAPO: 2nd Fret\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nLet me tell you a story, it happened long ago[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nWhen the pines were dancing in the wind on the Mendocino shore[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nThe town lights were blazing, there were parties everywhere[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt was Christmas eve and joy was in the air[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIn the dark and stormy night someone heard the sound[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nOf something breaking on the rocks and a big ship going down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nSome said they saw a light some swore it was a star[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat shone out there in the night although it wasn't far[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIn the grey light of morning they walked along the sand[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nFinding pieces of the ship but no sign of her hands[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nExcept a tiny pair of shoes and a woman's ragged coat[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat lay there at the water's edge in the driftwood and the foam[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSome said she sailed from India or the coast of Oregon[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nSome said by the size of her rigging it was some place far beyond[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nBut why she sailed into a port closed down so long ago[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOr if all on board were lost at sea no one seemed to know[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe fire was crackling in the stove when he heard the wailing cry[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nOf a little baby in the night somewhere close outside[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                                        [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nHe grabbed his gun and he left the house, he thought it was A cat[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut he found a woman with a babe, fallen in her tracks[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nShe was cold, her eyes were glazed, her skin was ghostly white[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nHe tried to make her speak, she just handed him the child[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nAnd then she passed into that endless sleep[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd he knelt beside her on the trail and he began to weep[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nRushing home he stoked the fire and he bathed the weary babe[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nIts skin was brown as a hazel nut, its eyes of greenest jade[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nIn age it was about two years or maybe six months more[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut he had the look of a wise old man who'd been this way before[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd so he stayed and he filled the heart of the man that he called dad[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd Shipwreck Star was the only name that boy-child ever had[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nHis mama, she lies buried in the manzanita and the pines[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere the wild azaleas bloom in the fog-bound summertime[/tab]","plain_text":"Kate Wolf - Midnight Star\n\n\nCAPO: 2nd Fret","chords":["C","F","G7","Am","Em","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}