Richard Marx - Hold On To The Nights Chords

Capo 3rd Fret - all notes and chords are relative to the capo

This is played on acoustic but in the same key as the studio version.

INTRO

   Am           Fmaj9                     Am         Fmaj9 
                         
E-|--------------0----------------------|--------------0---------------------------------|
B-|-1-0-1---0-1--1--3----0-1---0-1--1-0-|-1-0-1---0-1--1--3------0---0-------------------|
G-|-------2------0-----2-----2----------|-------2------0-----0-2---2---2-----0-2-0-2-----|
D-|--------------3----------------------|--------------3-----------------2-2---------0---|
A-|-0-----------------------------------|-0----------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------3-|


VERSE 1

Am              Fmaj9          Gsus2sus4      Gsus2   Gadd9  Gsus2 
Just when I believed I couldn't ever want for more

Am                 Fmaj9            Gsus2sus4     Gsus2   Gadd9  Gsus2
This ever changing world pushes me through another door

Fmaj9    Am   Fsus2
I saw you smile

      Gsus2sus4       Gsus2     Gadd9        Gsus2
And my mind could not erase the beauty of you face

Fmaj9     Am   Fsus2
Just for awhile

         G6add9       Fsus2   G6add9 
Won't you let me shelter   you


CHORUS

C      F       G6add9   
Hold on to the nights

C      F       G6add9
Hold on to the memories

C                     F               G6add9
I wish that I could give you something more

That I could be yours


REPEAT 2nd PART OF INTRO

    Am         Fmaj9 
                         
E-|--------------0---------------------------------|
B-|-1-0-1---0-1--1--3------0---0-------------------|
G-|-------2------0-----0-2---2---2-----0-2-0-2-----|
D-|--------------3-----------------2-2---------0---|
A-|-0----------------------------------------------|
E-|----------------------------------------------3-|


VERSE 2

Am          Fmaj9               Gsus2sus4      Gsus2   Gadd9  Gsus2 
How do we explain something that took us by surprise

Am          Fmaj9             Gsus2sus4       Gsus2   Gadd9  Gsus2 
Promises in vain, love that is real but in disguise

Fmaj9    Am   Fsus2
What happens now

      Gsus2sus4     Gsus2    
Do we break another rule

         Gadd9          Gsus2
Let our lovers play the fool

Fmaj9    Am   Fsus2
I don't know how

   G6add9            Fsus2   G6add9
To stop feeling this way



CHORUS

C      F       G6add9   
Hold on to the nights

C      F       G6add9
Hold on to the memories

C                     F      G6add9
I wish that I could give you more



BRIDGE

         Bm                                A
Well, I think that I've been true to everybody else but me

        Fsus2                         G6add9    
And the way I feel about you makes my heart long to be free

     Bm                               A
Everytime I look into your eyes, I'm helplessly aware

         Fsus2                              Gsus2sus4
That the someone I've been searching for is right there



REPEAT CHORUS

C      F       G6add9   
Hold on to the nights

C      F       G6add9
Hold on to the memories

C                     F      G6add9
I wish that I could give you more

There is a key change here. You can either move the capo up to the 5th fret or play the chorus as 

D  G  A