Transcribed by:

Douglas French

Slow strum in waltz time:

Verse 1:
Am                 G      Am                    G
   Nights in white satin,    never reaching the end.
F               C        Bb                  Am
   Letters I've written,    never meaning to send.
Am             G              Am                   G
   Beauty I've always missed,    with these eyes before.
F                C         Bb                Am
   Just what the truth is,    I can't say anymore.  But I …

Chorus:
D            D          F             F
Love you.         Yes, I love you.     Oh how I
Am           G          Am            G
Love you......

(Solo, see below)

Verse 2:
Gazing at people, some hand in hand.
Just what I'm going through they can't understand.
Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend.
Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end.

(Chorus) (x2)

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Solo:
         Am                  G
|------|-------------7--8--|-7--------------7--|
|------|-10----------------|----10-8-----10----|
|---9--|-------------------|-------------------|
|------|-------------------|-------------------|
|------|-------------------|-------------------|
|------|-------------------|-------------------|
         .        .          .        .

  F                   E
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-10-8--------8--10-|-9-----------------|
|-------10----------|----------9-----9--|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
  .        .          .        .

  Am                  G
|-------------7--8--|-10-8--7-----8--10-|
|-10----------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
  .        .          .        .

  F                   E
|-8--7--------7--8--|-7-----------------|
|-------10----------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
  .        .          .        .

  Am                  F
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-9--------------9--|-7-----------------|
|-------------------|----10-7-----7--10-|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
  .        .          .        .

  Am                  F
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-9--------------9--|-7-----------------|
|-------------------|----10-7-----7--10-|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
   .        .          .        .


|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-7-----------9--10-|-9-----------9-----|
|-------------------|----------------10-|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
  .        .          .        .


|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-7-----------9--10-|-9-----------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
  .        .          .        .

Am     G      Am

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I arranged the song in Am using barre chords
to match the original chord centers:

Am: 577555
G:  355433
F:  133211
C:  332010
Bb: x13331  or  688766

While NIWS is generally played with a strum (on solo guitar)
to imitate the original sleepy sound of the Melotron, the
song can be rearranged slightly for a more delicate sound
using arpegiated chords:

  Am (barre 5):
|---------------------------|--
|-------5-----------5-------|--
|-----5---5-------5---5-----|--
|---7-------7---7-------7---|--      etc, etc
|-------------7-------------|--
|-5-------------------------|--

last updated:8/8/1998