Save A Secret For The Moon Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays357

Save A Secret For The Moon by The Magnetic Fields is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro 
G   C G 
G   D C 
G   C G 
G   D C 

Verse 
G              C        G 
I know all the names of your tears 
G           D        C 
The numbers of those lonely years 
G               C       G 
I know all the "someone someday"s 
G       D          C 
Don't believe them anyway 

         C 
When you love someone 
D              G 
You can always tell the sun 
           C 
It will be twilight soon 
D                     G 
Save a secret for the moon 
     C 
In a darkened room 
D             G 
Write it on a black balloon 
              C 
Then watch it fade from view 
D                     G 
Save a secret for the moon 

Break 
G   C G 
G   D C 
G   C G 
G   D C 

Verse 
G              C      G 
I can show you sadder poetry 
G        D            C 
Than you ever dreamed there could be 
G              C       G 
I know all the saddest people 
G       D        C 
Most of them are dead now 

         C 
When you love someone 
D              G 
You can always tell the sun 
           C 
It will be twilight soon 
D                     G 
Save a secret for the moon 
     C 
In a darkened room 
D             G 
Write it on a black balloon 
              C 
Then watch it fade from view 
D                     G 
Save a secret for the moon 

         C 
When you love someone 
D              G 
You can always tell the sun 
           C 
It will be twilight soon 
D                     G 
Save a secret for the moon 
     C 
In a darkened room 
D             G 
Write it on a black balloon 
              C 
Then watch it fade from view 
D                     G 
Save a secret for the moon 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

--
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