Perfect Have I Loved Chords

KeyD Capo4st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays530

Perfect Have I Loved by Taylor Swift is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords D, G, Em and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D * 
If you love me, then I love you 
G * 
Swear by the freckles on the moon 
Em *     A * 
And maybe this will be enough 
D * 
I'd like to keep you til I'm old 
G * 
But if I can't at least you'll know 
Em *      A *                  D G 
That baby, perfect have I loved 
    D G 
Oh, oh 

D              G 
Do you remember the stupid things  
           D  G 
we used to do? 
D               G 
Before September stole me away from D G 
you 
Em 
The time we got your truck stuck in      A 
the creek 
Em 
Cause baby, roads weren't wild enough          A 
for you and me 

D 
Sayin' if you love me, then I love you 
G 
I swear by the freckles on the moon 
Em       A 
And maybe this will be enough 
D 
I'd like to keep you til I'm old 
G 
But if I can't at least you'll know 
Em       A                    D 
That baby, perfect have I loved 

G D G 

D                G 
I used to see you, by that old bridge            D G 
we used to cross 
D                  G 
I found the feeling, trying to get  
 D  G 
lost 
Em 
You would smile that smile that  
A 
I've tried so hard to forget 
Em 
its hard to douse a fire that  
A 
I still haven't put out yet 

D 
And if you love me, then I love you 
G 
I swear by the freckles on the moon 
Em       A 
And maybe this will be enough 
D 
I'd like to keep you til I'm old 
G 
But if I can't at least you'll know 
Em       A                    D 
That baby, perfect have I loved 

G D G 

Em 
Love was all we knew 
             A 
And faith was growing on the vine 
Em 
Words were all we had 
           A 
And for one summer you were mine 

D 
If you love me, then I love you 
G 
I swear by the freckles on the moon 
Em       A 
And maybe this will be enough 
D 
I'd like to keep you til I'm old 
G 
But if I can't at least you'll know 
Em        A *                  D * 
That baby, perfect have I loved 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante