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 ooh sing sweet nightingale