Biography:
Ben Folds Five is a trio formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 1994, who until their breakup in 2000 were a mainstay of Piano rock. Much of their work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending.
The members of the band are Ben Folds, the lead singer and pianist, who also wrote most of the songs; Robert Sledge on bass; and Darren Jessee on drums. The group enjoyed the success of the single Brick in 1997
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Other songs:
- Brick
- Do It Anyway
- Draw A Crowd
- Fred Jones Part 2
- Landed
- Magic
- Not The Same
- The Luckiest
- Air
- Alice Childress
- Annie Waits
- Army
- Away When You Were Here
- Bad Idea
- Battle Of Who Could Care Less
- Best Imitation
- Bizarre Christmas Incident
- Boxing
- Cigarette
- Dont Change Your Plans
- Eddie Walker
- Emaline
- Erase Me
- Evaporated
- Fired
- Hold That Thought
- Hospital Song
- House
- Jackson Cannery
- Julianne
- Just Pretend
- Kate
- Leather Jacket
- Lonely Christmas Eve
- Luckiest
- Lullabye
- Mess
- Michael Praytor Five Years Later
- Missing The War
- Narcolepsy
- On Being Frank
- One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces
- One Down
- Philosophy
- Rain Drops Keep Falling
- Red Is Blue
- Rockstar
- Selfless Cold And Composed
- She Dont Use Jelly
- Silver Street
- Sky High
- Smoke
- Song For The Dumped
- Stevens Last Night In Town
- Stumblin Home Winter Blues
- The Ascent Of Stan
- The Last Polka
- Twin Falls
- Underground
- Video
- War
- Wheres Summer B
- Your Redneck Past
- Youve Got To Learn To Live With What You Are
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[Chorus 1]
C F G C (F) C
Goodnight, goodnight sweet baby
C/E F F/E
The world has more for you
F/D F/E F
than it seems
G G7/F G6/E Dm7
Goodnight, goodnight
C F G F C (F) C
Let the moonlight take the lid off your dreams
[Instrumental 1]
F C F C x 4
[Verse 1]
F C F G
We took a small flight
F C F G
In the middle of the night
F C F G F C F G
from one tiny place to another
[Verse 2]
F C F G
And my parents they remained
F C F G
At the shack with Lorraine
F C F G F C F G
and my aunt and my grandpa and brother
[Bridge 1]
Am E
We walked past the tarmac
Am D
And boarded the craft
G G7/F G6/E (Em7) (Ebm7) Dm7
the rain had me chilled to the bones
[Verse 3]
F C F G
Just the three of us
F C F G
Took flight that night
F C F G F C F G
Uncle Richard, me and James Earl Jones
[Instrumental 2]
C F G F C F G x 4
[Instrumental 3]
D Db/F Dm/F Em/G Em9 G/E C/G Abaug/Gb Fdim7
Fmaj7/G
Em7 A7 Dm7 Fmaj7/G
C F G x 3
[Bridge 2]
Am E
And the pilot he gave me
Am D
A blanket while the tall dark man
G G7/F G6/E (Em7) (Ebm7) Dm7
sang to me in deep rich tones...
[Chorus 2]
C F G C (F) C
Goodnight, goodnight sweet baby
C/E F F/E
The world has more for you
F/D F/E F
than it seems
G G7/F G6/E Dm7
Goodnight, goodnight
C F G F C (F) C
Let the moonlight take the lid off your dreams
C F G C (F) C
Goodnight, goodnight sweet baby
C/E F F/E
The world has more for you
F/D F/E F
than it seems
G G7/F G6/E Dm7
Goodnight, goodnight
C F G F C (F) C
Let the moonlight take the lid off your dreams
[Instrumental 1]
F C F C x 4
[Verse 1]
F C F G
We took a small flight
F C F G
In the middle of the night
F C F G F C F G
from one tiny place to another
[Verse 2]
F C F G
And my parents they remained
F C F G
At the shack with Lorraine
F C F G F C F G
and my aunt and my grandpa and brother
[Bridge 1]
Am E
We walked past the tarmac
Am D
And boarded the craft
G G7/F G6/E (Em7) (Ebm7) Dm7
the rain had me chilled to the bones
[Verse 3]
F C F G
Just the three of us
F C F G
Took flight that night
F C F G F C F G
Uncle Richard, me and James Earl Jones
[Instrumental 2]
C F G F C F G x 4
[Instrumental 3]
D Db/F Dm/F Em/G Em9 G/E C/G Abaug/Gb Fdim7
Fmaj7/G
Em7 A7 Dm7 Fmaj7/G
C F G x 3
[Bridge 2]
Am E
And the pilot he gave me
Am D
A blanket while the tall dark man
G G7/F G6/E (Em7) (Ebm7) Dm7
sang to me in deep rich tones...
[Chorus 2]
C F G C (F) C
Goodnight, goodnight sweet baby
C/E F F/E
The world has more for you
F/D F/E F
than it seems
G G7/F G6/E Dm7
Goodnight, goodnight
C F G F C (F) C
Let the moonlight take the lid off your dreams
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