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Speak Low
Words & Music by Ogden Nash & Kurt Weill
Recorded by Frank Sinatra, 1945
A7+5 Em7/9 A7 Em7/9 A7/9 Em7/9 A7 Em7/9
Speak low when you speak, love,
A7/9 Em7/9 A7/9 Em7/9 A7 D6 A7 B7
Our summer day withers a - way too soon, too soon.
Cdim A7 Em7 A7 Em7 Cdim
Speak low when you speak, love
Edim D F#7 A7 Em7 Edim D
Our moment is swift, like ships a - drift we're swept apart.
A7+5 Em7/9 A7 Em7/9 A7/9 Em7/9 A7 Em7/9
Speak low, darling speak low,
A7/9 Em7/9 A7/9 Em7/9 A7 D7 A7 B7
Love is a spark lost in the dark, too soon, too soon,
Cdim A7/6 Em7 A7 Edim Em7/9 Edim D
I feel that wherever I go tomorrow is near,
Cdim A7 Edim D
Tomorrow is here and always too soon.
Em7 Cdim G G/F# Em7 A7
Time is so old and love so brief,
D G A7 DM7 F#m Edim F#7
Love is pure gold and time a thief.
A7+5 Em7/9 A7 Em7/9 A7/9 Em7/9 A7 Em7/9
We're late darling, we're late,
A7/9 Em7/9 A7/9 Em7/9 A7 D6 A7 B7
The curtain des - cends, ev'rything ends too soon, too soon,
G9 Edim D F#7 B7
I wait darling, I wait
D F#m Bm E Edim Gdim A7 A7+5 D6
Will you speak love to me, speak love to me and soon.
*Requested by recent visitor Paul Handelman
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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