The prettiest thing

 

   C ~                       Em                   B7

1.       The prettiest thing I ever did see,

            F                            C            Dm

    was lightening from the top of a cloud,

       G

    moving through the dark a million miles an hour,

                         F        C

    with somewhere to be.

 

                              Em             B7

2. So why does it seem like a picture,

      F                     C                      Dm

    hanging up on someone else's wall,

     G

    lately I haven't been myself at all,

                     F          C

    it's heavy on my mind.

 

            Am Bb       F     - Am              Bb          F

    I'm dreaming again,          like I've always been,

           Am   Bb     F    - Am             G

    and way down low,         I still know.

 

                          Em                   B7

3. The prettiest thing I ever did see,

              F                 C                    Dm

    was dusty as the handle on the door,

     G

    rusty as a nail stuck in the old pine floor,

                      F           C

    looks like home to me.               + instrumental = verse 3

 

                   Am  Bb       F     - Am              Bb          F

    Now I'm dreaming again,          like I've always been,

Am       Bb     F    - Am              G                           Em   - B7

    way down low           I'm thinkin' of the prettiest thing.

 

    - Em - B7   - Em - B7   ….. Em

 

    (Norah Jones)