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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Carole King
Vocals
Abigale Haness
Background Vocals
Louise Goffin
Background Vocals
Sherry Goffin
Background Vocals
Dean Parks
Guitar
Danny Kortchmar
Guitar
Andy Newmark
Drums
C. Larkey
Bass
Fred Jackson Jr.
Horn
George Bohanon
Horn
Mike Altschul
Horn
Chuck Findley
Horn
Gene Goe
Horn
Dick "Slyde" Hyde
Horn
Ernie Watts
Horn
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Carole King
Composer
David Palmer
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Lou Adler
Producer
Norm Kinney
Engineer
Hank Cicalo
Engineer
Milt Calice
Assistant Engineer
Rick Rowe
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
Like some night bird homeward wingin
He seeks the sheltered nest
Like the sailor's lost horizon
He needs some place to rest
The songs that he's been singin'
No longer make much sense
And those stranger's cold perceptions
They've killed his confidence
Nightingale, she sails away upon a sea of song
Nightingale, she serenades his lonely, lonely life along
When his tired voice is broken
His golden hope is gone
She makes a lost soul's simple longing
Somehow not so wrong
Nightingale, nightingale
He was strong, but he was taken
By the thought of his success
Those spotlights shadows
How they lured him and took him like all the rest
But that old dream don't look good now
No it don't seem quite the same
He needs to hear a tender word
Won't you sing him home again
Nightingale, she sails away up on a sea of song
Nightingale, she serenades his lonely, lonely life along
When his strength is slowly going
His pride is all but gone
She makes a foolish dreamer listen to one last song
Nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale
Oh, na, na, na, na
Nightingale, oh nightingale
Nightingale ooh sing sweet nightingale
Writer(s): Carole King, David Palmer
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