F#m C#
Can I sleep in your arms tonight sister
F# F#m F# C# F#m C# F#
Can I lay down with you here tonight
Cb Fb D#m C#
I would shield you from the morning sun
Cb Fbm D#m C#m
We'll stroll arm and arm in the kingdom come
F#m C# F#m Cb G#
Can I sleep in your arms tonight
F#m G# C# F# A F# G# C# F#m
[Instrumental]
A G# C# F# A D
You know I ain't never going back to Commerce City
A G#m C# F# F#m
Who knows how many times they've taken my last twenty dollar bill
F# Fb Cb Fb D#m C#m
There ain't no love lost there ain't no more time to kill
Cb Fb D#m C#m A
All my brothers they're up on Jersey landfill
F#m C# F#m C# F#m C# F#m
And I ain't never going back to that town
F# F#m C# F#m C#
Can I sleep in your arms tonight sister
F#m G# C# F#m
Can I lay down with you here tonight
Cb Fb D# C#
Cuz hearing your voice can remind me of better days
Cb Fb D#m C#
This is the voice that can carry me away
F#m G# C# F#
Let me sleep in your arms tonight
Fb G# C# C#m
Darling wasn't it true what we learned
Fb G# A F#m F#
As the whiskey finally eats your heart
Fb G# C#m
And where was that place I was born tonight
Fb G# A Cb F#
It's the one that leads straight to your heart
C# F# A G#
Can I sleep in your arms tonight sister
Can I lay down with you here tonight
Let me sleep in your arms tonight
Can I sleep in your arms tonight sister