Oft In The Stilly Night Chords
Oft In The Stilly Night by Celtic Thunder is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, G7 and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse: 1
G C
Oft, in the stilly night
G D G
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me
G G7 C
Fond Memory brings the light
G D G
Of other days around me
G
The smiles, the tears
D G
Of boyhood's years
Em C D G
The words of love then spoken
G
The eyes that shone
C G
Now dimm'd and gone
Em C D G
The cheerful hearts now broken
G G7 C
Thus, in the stilly night
G D G
Ere Slumber's chain hath bound me
G G7 C
Sad Memory brings the light
G D G
Of other days around me
Verse: 2
G C
When I remember all
G D G
The friends, so link'd together
G G7 C
I've seen around me fall
G D G
Like leaves in wintry weather
G
I feel like one
D G
Who treads alone
Em C D G
Some banquet-hall deserted
G
Whose lights are fled
D Em
Whose garlands dead
G D G
And all but he departed
G G7 C
Thus, in the stilly night
G D G
Ere Slumber's chain hath bound me
G G7 C
Sad Memory brings the light
G D G
Of other days around me