The Minstrel Chords
The Minstrel by Dan Fogelberg is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F with a capo on the 5st fret. It uses the chords F, Am, G and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
th Fret
Intro: F Am G Em F Am G F Em Am G Em F Am G Am
G Em F
There's a love in my life, neither mistress or wife
Am G F Em
And she waits for me every morning by the sea
Am G Em F
Where the fishing hawk wheels and the sun warms the seals
Am G Am
There she lays at her silent anchorage for me
G Em F
She is fine, she is fleet, she will run, reach or beat
Am G F Em
With a song in her rigging and her sails
Am G Em F
And when day is done, we will lay-to as one
Am G Am
And sleep 'neath the rolling rhythm of the stars
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