- Votes:
- Composers:
- Dave Palmer
- Carole King
 
- Genres:
- 70s
- Folk
 
- Tags:
- carole king
- female vocalist
- singer songwriter
 
- See also:
Carole King - Nightingale lyrics
Like some night bird homeward wingin 
He seeks the sheltered nest 
Like the sailor's lost horizon, 
He needs some place to rest 
The songs that he's been singin' 
No longer make much sense 
And those stranger's cold perceptions 
They've killed his confidence 
Nightingale, she sails away upon a sea of song 
Nightingale, SHE SERENADES HIS LONELY, LONELY LIFE ALONG 
When his tired voice is broken 
His golden hope is gone 
She makes a lost soul's simple longing 
somehow not so wrong 
Nightingale, nightingale 
He was strong, but he was taken 
By the thought of his success 
Those spotlights shadows 
How they lured him and took him like all the rest 
But that old dream don't look good now 
No it don't seem quite the same 
He needs to hear a tender word 
Won't you sing him home again 
Nightingale, she sails away up on a sea of song 
Nightingale, she serenades his lonely, lonely life along 
When his strength is slowly going, 
His pride is all but gone 
She makes a foolish dreamer listen to one last song Carole King - Nightingale - http://motolyrics.com/carole-king/nightingale-lyrics.html
Nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale 
Oh, na, na, na, na 
Nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale 
In my little town 
I grew up believing 
God keeps his eye on us all 
And he used to lean upon me 
As I pledged allegiance to the wall 
Lord I recall my little town 
Coming home after school 
Riding my bike past the gates of the factories 
My mom doing the laundry 
Hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze 
And after it rains there's a rainbow 
And all of the colors are black 
It's not that the colors aren't there 
It's just imagination they lack 
Everything's the same back in my little town 
In my little town I never meant nothing 
I was just my father's son 
Saving my money 
Dreamin of glory 
Twitching like a finger on a trigger of a gun 
Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town 
Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town 
Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town















