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12-string Guitar: Oft In The Stilly Night

3,255 views · Published 19 October 2009 · 3:01 · Indexed 17 October 2026

Channel: threelegsoman · 2009 · Music

These melancholy words come from the pen of Thomas Moore and were set to music by Sir John Stevenson. It is a slow and often difficult song to sing, but like so many of Moore's poems is full of emotion and love.

Oft In The Stilly Night
Words by Thomas Moore; musical arrangement by Sir John Stevenson

D D7 G D A7 D
Oft, in the stilly night, ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
D7 G D A7 D
Fond Memory brings the light of other days around me;
Bm Em
The smiles, the tears, of boyhood's years,
Bm A7 D
The words of love then spoken;
A7 D
The eyes that shone, now dimm'd and gone,
Bm A7 D
The cheerful hearts now broken!
D D7 G D A7 D
Thus, in the stilly night, ere Slumber's chain hath bound me,
D7 G D A7 D
Sad Memory brings the light of other days around me.

D7 G D A7 D
When I remember all the friends, so link'd together,
D7 G D A7 D
I've seen around me fall like leaves in wintry weather;
Bm Em
I feel like one, who treads alone
Bm A7D
Some banquet-hall deserted,
A7 D
Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead,
Bm A7 D
And all but he departed!
D7 G D A7 D
Thus, in the stilly night, ere Slumber's chain hath bound me,
D7 G D A7 D
Sad Memory brings the light of other days around me.

12-string Guitar: Oft In The Stilly Night

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