What Is True chords by Fairport Convention

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G+G D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD
G+G D MajorD E minorEm  G minorGm

Verse:
D MajorD         A augmentedA         G+G       D MajorD
Silver tongues are speaking long and hard into the night
               E minorEm A augmentedA
I must be myself and I'll do alright
G+G  A augmentedA     D MajorD    A augmentedA       E minorEm  D MajorD
Oh, please my darling, do not make me sad
        A augmentedA      G+G         D MajorD   D MajorD E minorEm A augmentedA
Late at night nobody really wants to feel that bad

Verse:
  D MajorD        A augmentedA     G+G       D MajorD
The rain it beats impatiently upon the windowpane
               E minorEm  A augmentedA   G+G
I must close my ears or I'll go insane
     A augmentedA  D MajorD        A augmentedA      E minorEm    D MajorD
Can't you be a gentle breeze or silent as a snowfall
         A augmentedA       G+G        D MajorD
Won't you try and listen for the voice behind the wall
  E minorEm    A augmentedA
It cries to you

Chorus:
   G+G       D MajorD       E minorEm       D MajorD
Even though it only ever whispers part of what it knows
     G+G       D MajorD              E minorEm      D MajorD
And it's never ventured through the locks where the brazen river flows
     G+G          D MajorD          E minorEm       G minorGm Gm7Gm7
It's the fingerprint which is never made, it's the perfume of a rose....

Verse:
     D MajorD        A augmentedA         G+G       D MajorD
And it is there if you are searching, but the moment must be right
               E minorEm    A augmentedA
As the night is black, as the day it is light
G+G A augmentedA D MajorD       A augmentedA    E minorEm   D MajorD
Please.. my friend, help to make me glad
         A augmentedA      G+G        D MajorD
Help me find the one and only thing I've never had
E minorEm   A augmentedA
What is true

Chorus:
   G+G       D MajorD       E minorEm       D MajorD
Even though it only ever whispers part of what it knows
     G+G       D MajorD              E minorEm      D MajorD
And it's never ventured through the locks where the brazen river flows
     G+G          D MajorD          E minorEm       G minorGm Gm7Gm7 D MajorD
It's the fingerprint which is never made, it's the perfume of a rose....

Outro:
G+G D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD
G+G D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD
G+G D MajorD E minorEm  G minorGm  D MajorD