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Last Night I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep

by Roy Orbison

Biography:

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), nicknamed "The Big O", was an influential American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll, whose recording career spanned more than four decades. By the mid-1960s Orbison was internationally recognized for his ballads of lost love, rhythmically advanced melodies, three-octave vocal range, characteristic dark sunglasses, and sometimes distinctive usage of falsetto, typified in songs such as "Only the Lonely, "Oh, Pretty Woman", and "Crying".

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(Last Night) I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep:
Roy Orbison.
Album - Hank Williams the Roy Orbison Way -
on MGM Records in 1970.

INTRO: Ab Eb

#1.
Ab Db Ab
I know you tried your best to love me.
Db Eb Ab
You smiled when your heart told you to weep.
Db Bbm Eb Ab
You tried to pretend that you were happy.
Fm Eb
Ooo, last night I heard you crying in your
Ab Bbm Eb
sleep.

#2.
Ab Db Ab
You gave the best years of your life, dear.
Db Eb Ab
And each precious vow you tried to keep.
Db Dbm Bbm Eb Ab
I love you so much I want you happy.
Fm Eb
Oooo, last night I heard you crying in your
Ab........E
sleep.

#3.
E A D A
Your heart is yearning for an old love.
D E A
With new love it's useless to compete.
D Bm E A
It hurts me to know that you're unhappy.
Gbm E
Yeah, last night I heard you crying in your
A Bm E
sleep.

#3.
A D A
You know that you are free to go, dear.
D E A
And don't mind me if I start to weep.
D Bm E A
I know I can never make you happy.
Gbm E A E Bm E
Cause last night I heard you cry-ing in your
A G A
sleeeeep.

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