Sonnet 18 Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays499

Sonnet 18 by David Gilmour is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A, Em, Bm and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
Text
16
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Intro: D 

            G     A           G        D 
Shall I compare thee    to a summer's day? 
               Em  G         A         D 
Thou art more lovely    and more temperate 
                 G                           D 
Rough winds do shake    the darling buds of may, 
              Em             G                D 
And summer's lease      hath all too short a date 

              A                            Bm 
Sometime too hot        the eye of heaven shines, 
          E                                  A 
And often is            his gold complexion dimm'd; 

           G      A                    G       D 
And every fair          from fair sometime declines, 
              Em    G     A                 D 
By chance or nature's   changing course untrimm'd; 

       A                           Bm 
But thy eternal summer  shall not fade 
             E                             A 
Nor lose possession     of that fair thou owest; 

                  G                             D 
Nor shall death brag    thou wander'st in his shade, 
        Em       G                     D 
When in eternal lines   to time thou growest: 

    A                                   Bm 
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, 
                G        A                  D 
So long lives this and this gives life to thee 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante