Sonnet Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays521

Sonnet by Decemberists is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, B, C#m and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
E
Text
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            E                
Guido, I wish that you and Lapo and I 
                       B 
Could be taken by magic and placed in a boat 
                     E 
Where every rising swell 
                              B 
Would sweep us at our will across the sky 

               E 
Then tempest never, or weather dire 
                        B 
Could ever make our blissful living cease 
                         E 
No, but abiding in a steady, blessed peace 
      B 
Together in harmony 

C#m                       A 
And Lady Vanna and Lagia then 
                           E 
She who looms the thirty best 
                                    B 
Would join us at the enchanter’s behest 

                 E  
And there we’d talk of love without an end 
                  B 
To make those ladies happy in the sky 
      E                        B 
With Lapo enchanted too, and you and I  
    	

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).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante