Sleepless Nights tab - emmylou harris

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 05:35:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: rickl1@IX.netcom.com (Rick L)
Subject: CRD:    Sleepless Nights      Emmylou Harris     Chords/Lyrics

Emmylou Harris   Sleepless Nights  written by Felice Bryant
                                              Boudeleaux Bryant
           

Bernie Leadon    acoustic guitar/bass
Rick Cunha       acoustic guitar
James Burton     electric guitar
Ron Tutt         drums
Glen D Hardin    piano
Ben Keith        steel guitar


B                  F#               B
Thru the sleepless nights I cry for you
E          A     D#7        G#m  G#maddC#  B7
And wonder who   is kissing you 
         E                     F#                B    F#
Oh these sleepless nights will break my heart in two 
B                F#                 B
Somehow thru the days I don't give in 
E          A      D#7       G#m   G#maddC#  B7
I hide the tears  that wait untill 
         E                     F#                B    
Oh these sleepless nights will break my heart in two 

SOLO

D#7         G#m  D#7         G#m
Why did you go   why did you go 
          E               B        D#7   F#
Don't you know  don't you know   I need you  
B                  F#               B
Thru the sleepless nights I cry for you
E          A     D#7       G#m   B7
And wonder who   is kissing you 
         E                     F#                 B    
Oh these sleepless nights will break my heart in  two 
A        E                     F#                 B    
Oh these sleepless nights will break my heart in  two
A        E                     F#                 E    B    
Oh these sleepless nights will break my heart in  two

  From Emmylou Harris "Pieces Of The Sky"
  Reprise Records 1975
  House Of Bryant(BMI)

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Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - Sleepless Nights
Gram & Emmy...covering an Everly Brothers tune. This is from the album of the same name. Through the sleepless nights I cry for you & wonder who is kissing you Oh these sleepless nights will break my heart in two Somehow through the days I don't give in I hide the tears that wait within Oh but then through sleepless nights I cry again Why did you go? Why did you go? Don't you know, don't you know I need you? I keep hoping you'll come back to me Oh let it be, please let it be Oh my love, please end these sleepless nights for me

Emmylou Harris & Elvis Costello - Sleepless Nights
Live in Memphis

Emmylou Harris Ricky Skaggs"Sleepless Nights" live 1979
Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs and Brian Ahern play the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant song "Sleepless Nights" live from a show in 1979. There is no video so I have added some Emmylou pictures, please vote and comment, thanks Ally.

sleepless nights ( Gram Parsons cover )
A cover of the Gram Parsons Emmylou Harris song Sleepless Nights.

EMMYLOU HARRIS & LINDA RONSTADT-ALL I LEFT BEHIND
TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA: Early years Emmylou Harris was the daughter of a career military father, a Marine Corps officer who was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she spent her childhood in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia, where she graduated from Gar-Field Senior High School as class valedictorian. In high school she also won a drama scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she began to study music seriously, learning to play the songs of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez on guitar. Leaving college to pursue her musical aspirations, she moved to New York, working as a waitress to support herself while performing folk songs in Greenwich Village coffeehouses. She married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and in the following year recorded her first album, Gliding Bird, which was released by Jubilee Records. The label was on its last legs financially, and filed for bankruptcy shortly after the record's release. (It was reissued in 1979 on Emus Records, and in 1984, Harris successfully sued Morris Levy for the rights to the album.) Harris and Slocum soon divorced, and Harris and her newborn daughter Hallie moved in with her parents in the Maryland suburbs on the edge of Washington, D.C.[1] [edit] With Gram Parsons Harris soon returned to performing as part of a trio with Gerry Mule and Tom Guidera. One night in 1971 members of the country rock group The Flying Burrito Brothers happened to be in the audience. Former Byrds member Chris Hillman, who had taken over the band after the departure of its founder Gram Parsons, was so impressed by Harris that he briefly considered asking her to join the band. Instead, Hillman ended up recommending her to Parsons, who was looking for a female vocalist to work with on his first solo album, GP. Harris toured as a member of Parsons' band, The Fallen Angels, in 1973, and the couple shone during vocal harmonies and duets. Harris was quite pleased, and invested a lot emotionally in their relationship. Later that year, Parsons and Harris were working together to record a studio album, Grievous Angel. Parsons died in his motel room near what is now Joshua Tree National Park on September 19, 1973, from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol. Parsons's Grievous Angel was released posthumously in 1974 and three more tracks from his last sessions with Harris were included on another posthumous Parsons album, Sleepless Nights, in 1976. There was one more album of recorded material from that period of time that was packaged with the name, Live 1973, but wasn't released until 1982. Following Parsons' death, Harris was devastated and appeared to be at an emotional and musical crossroads. The working relationship between Harris and Parsons is one of great importance in country and country-rock music history. Parsons offered Harris a study in true country music, introducing her to artists like The Louvin Brothers. Harris was a pioneer as a female performer of the early 1970s, drawn to a new respect for country and folk songs, but comfortable with music of several genres, which drew a crossover of listeners to songs from Parsons, and new songwriters like Rodney Crowell, while still easing in the rock and pop music they both enjoyed. The effect of a country-rock hybrid that continued to blossom was arguably just as influential on Parsons and Harris as their music was to both The Byrds and the Rolling Stones, and quite a few bands to come later. Harris was instrumental in bringing attention to Parsons's vision and achievements. Harris' earliest signature song, and arguably her most personal one, "Boulder to Birmingham", written shortly after Gram's death, showed the depth of her shock and pain at losing Parsons. It was, according to her friend Linda Ronstadt, the beginning of a "lifetime effort to process what had happened", noting the number of songs written and/or performed by Harris about her life with (and without) Parsons.