The Blanket Of The Nights Chords
by Elbow
The Blanket Of The Nights by Elbow is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Ab, G and Eb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
"The Blanket Of Night"
C
Paper cup of the boat
C F
Heaving chest of the sea
Ab
Carry both of us
F C
Carry her, carry me
C
From the place we were born
C F
To the land of the free
Ab
Carry both of us
F C
Carry her, carry me
F Ab F
The o---cea n
F G
That bears us from our home
C G
Could save u s
G F
Or take us for it's own
The danger
G
That life should lead us here
C G
My an gel
C
Could I have steered us clear?
C Ab
Gone, the light from her eyes
C
With the lives that we made
Ab
Just the two of us
F Eb C
In the night on the waves
C Ab
Moving silent her lips
C
By the moon's only light
Ab
Sowing silver prayers
F Eb C
In the blanket of night
F Ab F
The o cea n
G
That bears us from our home
C G
Could save u s
F
Or take us for it's own
Ab F
The dan ger
G
That life should lead us here
C G
My an ge l
C
Could I have steered us clear?
C
Paper cup of the boat
C F
Heaving chest of the sea
Ab
Carry both of us
F C
Or, swallow her, swallow me