(Porter Wagoner)      Hear the evening breezes start to blowing   See the evening shadows start to come   Listen to the nightbirds start their singing   Now the sounds of night have just begun.      A lonely hootowl cries out in the darkness   For its mate that's nowhere to be found   Then a lonesome whippoorwill strats calling   Their lonely voices fill the night with sound.      Hear the church bell ringing in the distance   What a mournful sound so late at night   Wonder why the darkness makes it sound so lonesome   Listen to the lonely sounds of night.      --- Instrumental ---      The darkness seems to whisper in the silence   Your love is gone but things will be all right   Still my lonely heart cries through the darkness   Listening to the lonely sounds of night.      Hear the church bell ringing in the distance   What a mournful sound so late at night   Wonder why the darkness makes it sound so lonesome   Listen to the lonely sounds of night...