Put A Light In The Window:The Four Lads.
#8 on BB Hot 100 on COLUMBIA Records
in 1957.
INTRO:
G C F
(Byyyyyyyy-umm-da-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-
Ab C
dum-da-da-dum-dum-dum.
G C
Dum-dum-dum-da-da-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.)
#1.
C F
There's a house, on the corner, on the corner of
C
the street.
F C G
In the house you're the pretty, you're the pretty
C
little gal who'll make my life complete.
CHORUS:
F C G
Tonight, tonight, put a light in the window..to prove
C C7
that you love me let it shi-i-ine.
F C G
Tonight, tonight put a light in the window..tonight's
C
the night I'm gonna make you mine.
#2.
C F C
Gonna go tell your mother, baby brother, father, too.
F C
Let them know, there's no other, no, there's not another
G C
one who'll love you like I do.
CHORUS:
F C G
Tonight, tonight, put a light in the window..to prove
C C7
that you love me let it shi-i-ine.
F C G
Tonight, tonight put a light in the window..tonight's
C
the night I'm gonna make you mine.
BRIDGE:
F Db C
(Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-da-da-dum-dum-dum.)
G C C7
You pretty little gal you're more than I deserve.
F Db C
(Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-da-da-dum-dum-dum.)
D G
Gonna climb the stairs, gonna ring that bell, before I
lose my nerve.
#3.
C F C
I got a ring for your finger, third finger, of your hand.
G F C G
Put a light in the window, cause tonight you're gonna get a
C
golden wedding band.
CHORUS:
F C G
Tonight, tonight, put a light in the window..to prove
C C7
that you love me let it shi-i-ine.
F C G
Tonight, tonight put a light in the window..tonight's
C
the night I'm gonna make you mine.
OUTRO:
G C
Oh, tonight's the night I'm gonna make you mine.
C F
(There's a house, on the corner, on the corner of
C
the street.)
C F C
Put a light in the window..and my pretty little gal you'll
G C
make my life complete.
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.