Biography:
Freedy Johnston (born 1961) is a New York City-based singer-songwriter originally from Kinsley, Kansas. Johnston's first album, "The Trouble Tree" was released in 1990, and features the guitar playing of the roots musician and author, David Hamburger. Johnston sold some of his family's farmland to finance the recording of his second album, Can You Fly (an event he wrote about in a song on that album, "Trying To Tell You I Don't Know"). Johnston followed up with his 1994 major label debut This Perfect World
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Freedy Johnston - "The Farthest Lights"
Notes:
Song is from "Blue Days Black Nights" 1999
Chords:
C [3 3 2 0 1 0]
Bb [x 1 3 3 3 1]
Dm7 [x x 0 2 1 1]
G [3 2 0 0 3 3]
Intro:
C Bb C Bb C Bb Dm7 G
Verse:
C Bb
At the window by yourself
C Bb
I'm outside with everyone else
C Bb
hold yourself against the chill and
Dm7 G
look at me with no expression
C Bb
in the eyes I know so well
C Bb
is a question and a spell
C Bb
an astronomer all my life I've
Dm7 G
never seen a light so pale
Chorus:
Dm7 G
the night is clear when the stars a-
Dm7 G
-ppear I recite their names
Dm7 G
the farthest lights only now a-
Dm7 G
-rrive wonder how they've changed
C Bb C Bb
Verse:
C Bb
everybody says goodbye
C Bb
driving off into the night
C Bb
I look up when the moon comes out then
Dm7 G
shut the gate and go inside
C Bb
more distant every day
C Bb
I will ask but you won't say
C Bb
Do I watch the sky too much fa-
Dm7 G
-miliar and so far away
Chorus:
Dm7 G
the stars appeared but they're always
Dm7 G
there up above the day
Dm7 G
the farthest lights take us back in
Dm7 G
time wonder how they've changed
Break:
C Bb C Bb C Bb Dm7 G
Chorus:
Dm7 G
the stars appeared but they're always
Dm7 G
there up above the day
Dm7 G
the farthest lights only now a-
Dm7 G
-rrive wonder how they've changed
C Bb C Bb C Bb Dm7 G
Notes:
Song is from "Blue Days Black Nights" 1999
Chords:
C [3 3 2 0 1 0]
Bb [x 1 3 3 3 1]
Dm7 [x x 0 2 1 1]
G [3 2 0 0 3 3]
Intro:
C Bb C Bb C Bb Dm7 G
Verse:
C Bb
At the window by yourself
C Bb
I'm outside with everyone else
C Bb
hold yourself against the chill and
Dm7 G
look at me with no expression
C Bb
in the eyes I know so well
C Bb
is a question and a spell
C Bb
an astronomer all my life I've
Dm7 G
never seen a light so pale
Chorus:
Dm7 G
the night is clear when the stars a-
Dm7 G
-ppear I recite their names
Dm7 G
the farthest lights only now a-
Dm7 G
-rrive wonder how they've changed
C Bb C Bb
Verse:
C Bb
everybody says goodbye
C Bb
driving off into the night
C Bb
I look up when the moon comes out then
Dm7 G
shut the gate and go inside
C Bb
more distant every day
C Bb
I will ask but you won't say
C Bb
Do I watch the sky too much fa-
Dm7 G
-miliar and so far away
Chorus:
Dm7 G
the stars appeared but they're always
Dm7 G
there up above the day
Dm7 G
the farthest lights take us back in
Dm7 G
time wonder how they've changed
Break:
C Bb C Bb C Bb Dm7 G
Chorus:
Dm7 G
the stars appeared but they're always
Dm7 G
there up above the day
Dm7 G
the farthest lights only now a-
Dm7 G
-rrive wonder how they've changed
C Bb C Bb C Bb Dm7 G
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