What Is True Chords
What Is True by Fairport Convention is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Em, Gm, A and Gm7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
G D Em D
G D Em Gm
Verse
D A G D
Silver tongues are speaking long and hard into the night
Em A
I must be myself and I'll do alright
G A D A Em D
Oh, please my darling, do not make me sad
A G D D Em A
Late at night nobody really wants to feel that bad
Verse
D A G D
The rain it beats impatiently upon the windowpane
Em A G
I must close my ears or I'll go insane
A D A Em D
Can't you be a gentle breeze or silent as a snowfall
A G D
Won't you try and listen for the voice behind the wall
Em A
It cries to you
G D Em D
Even though it only ever whispers part of what it knows
G D Em D
And it's never ventured through the locks where the brazen river flows
G D Em Gm Gm7
It's the fingerprint which is never made, it's the perfume of a rose....
Verse
D A G D
And it is there if you are searching, but the moment must be right
Em A
As the night is black, as the day it is light
G A D A Em D
Please.. my friend, help to make me glad
A G D
Help me find the one and only thing I've never had
Em A
What is true
G D Em D
Even though it only ever whispers part of what it knows
G D Em D
And it's never ventured through the locks where the brazen river flows
G D Em Gm Gm7 D
It's the fingerprint which is never made, it's the perfume of a rose....
Outro
G D Em D
G D Em D
G D Em Gm D