I Slept All Night by My Lover by Greg Brown from "In the Dark with You" Drop-D tuning D A D G B E ----------- Gmaj9 0 5 4 0 3 5 Am x 0 2 2 1 0 C6 x 2 0 0 3 0 Em7 x 3 0 0 5 0 C x 3 2 0 1 0 Em9 5 x 4 0 3 0 Intro: Gmaj9 Am C6 Em7 C6 Am (arpeggio) Gmaj9 Am (arpeggio) Gmaj9 Gmaj9 Am Lookin out my window, glad to see another dawn C6 Em7 C6 Am Gmaj9 Am Gmaj9 A few cars strugglin through the snow Gmaj9 Am It's so hard to believe it could all be here and gone C6 Em7 C6 Am Gmaj9 Am Gmaj9 So quickly that we wouldn't even know C Em9 Am Gmaj9 Am Gmaj9 And I slept all night by my lover She trembles in her sleep, deep in a bad dream I touch her brow and she ceases shaking Why should I sleep with such a lovely watch to keep In an hour or so the children will be waking And I slept all night by my lover Madmen with guns stalk the deer at night And bring down the dark the whole world over Even in my dreams I see their shining eyes And they pierce me and leave me with no cover And I slept all night by my lover ------------------------------------------------ Submitted by Bob Steidl ------------------------------------------------ And a lyrical addendum by Martin Breeden When I saw Greg at the Sanctuary in the early eighties he sang one verse of the song that never made it onto the LP. It went like this: 'We all live in the century of cigarettes and murder Just like Jesus on a rugged cross, and crying out for water. And I slept all night by my lover.'