Written by: Loonis Reeves McGlohon
Written by: Alec Wilder
Arranged By: Gordon Jenkins
From the Album: The Reprise Collection, Disc 4
Recorded: July 20, 1981
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Long night, it's a long night,
my friend
The barrooms and the back
street's dead end
Sometimes I thought I saw the
sunrise and good times in the air
It was just, it was just another
big town with midnight's neon glare
Long night, it's a long night, I
know
The bus rides and the
"nowhere to go"
I've seen what the street
corners do to things like love and dreams
Seen what the bottle can do to a
man with his hopes and his schemes
A long night, what a long night
it has been
The wheelers and the dealers,
they win
I've tasted the 90-proof gin and
chased it away with the blues
I rarely paid debts that I owed
but I sure have paid my dues
No daylight, just a long night
for me