The North Won The War Again Last Night Chords
by Cal Smith
The North Won The War Again Last Night by Cal Smith is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, C7, F, E7, D7 and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C C7
Bus station in Atlanta 6:40 in the evening
F C
She was standing cold and all alone
E7
I ask where she was going but she had no way of knowing
D7 G7
Cause she was broke and long way from home
C C7
Straight from New York City she was young thin and pretty
F C
She belonged in a fashion magazine
F
I said stay with me till morning
C F
I've got a bed to keep you warm in
C G7 C
We call it southern hospitality
G7 F C
Lying in the stillness there was no blue or gray
G7 F C G7
Only sweet surrender in the shadows where we la--y
F G7 E7 C
She held me close and loved this southern boy just right
D7 G7 C
And the north won the war again last night
C7
Morning's all around me my arms are all around her
F C
She's sleeping Lord and she looks so fine
E7
Between the shades of last night and this mornings daylight
D7 G7
We found love's Mason Dixon line
C C7
And in her arms I found that love isn't north or south
F C
It isn't how you say the things you say
F C F
New York City or Atlanta Cleveland or Savanna
C G7 C
She's taken all the boundaries away
G7 F C
Lying in the stillness there was no blue or gray
G7 F C G7
Only sweet surrender in the shadows where we la--y
F G7 E7 C
She held me close and loved this southern boy just right
D7 G7 C
And the north won the war again last night