Nightingale-Les Baxter

[00:00.00]Leonard Cohen - Nightingale [00:00.01] [00:00.68]I built my house beside the wood [00:05.75]So I could hear you singing [00:10.61]And it was sweet and it was good [00:15.49]And love was all beginning [00:20.58]Fare thee well my nightingale [00:25.68]'Twas long ago I found you [00:30.83]Now all your songs of beauty fail [00:35.69]The forest closes 'round you [00:40.86] [00:50.62]The sun goes down behind a veil [00:55.67]'Tis now that you would call me [01:00.52]So rest in peace my nightingale [01:05.72]Beneath your branch of holly [01:10.50]Fare thee well my nightingale [01:15.54]'Twas long ago I found you [01:20.38]Now all your songs of beauty fail [01:25.45]The forest closes 'round you [01:30.76] [01:50.83]Fare thee well my nightingale [01:55.56]I lived but to be near you [02:00.55]Tho' you are singing somewhere still [02:05.56]I can no longer hear you [02:13.92]