Moonlight Serenade chords by Kurt Elling
Verse 1
D
A
C#
A
Understand
D
C#
D
C#
E
the night
Bdim
Em
When she flashes her sparkling
Bm
Em
Bbdim
eyes at dusk
A
B
Bbaug
Bb
D
She flirts with twilight
G
Em
When the noise of day
A
D
Bbaug
dies away
Verse 2
Bbaug
The night and twilight stay and stay
Am
C
D
Making quiet love up high
G
C
G
over the town
Gm
F#m
C#
And the gentle twilight gives his light
Em
F
Making a queen of night
A
If I could
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Verse 3
Em
A
Em
A
I would write a sonnet of the night
F#m
B
as a remembrance of your eyes
Em
A
And, if you'd promise not to tell
D
A
I could whisper the words
D
Fdim
in the dark, like a lover
Em
We could count the stars,
Bm
Bbm
the shooting stars
Ebsus4
A
Talk of lovers through the ages
Bbdim
A
D
who had lived out of their dreams
Verse 4
A
Such will and courage,
D
Bbaug
they needed to live in a dream
D
Bbaug
Am
To burn, with every breath so serene
C
As if they had been the
D
G
first to find love at all
Gm
Bb
Like night and twilight
Gm
Verse 5
F#m
They were the
F#
Fm
first of lovers ever
Em
F
Could we be like them?
Em
A
Hold on to one another
D
until dawn comes
A
D
G
Then, we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight,
Interlude 1
kiss again
G
D
G
C#dim
F#aug
Gdim
C
F#dim
B
Am
C#
Aaug
Dm
D
A
F#m
F#dim
B
Edim
Bbdim
A
Verse 6
Bm
A
My love
Am
F
Fdim
Fdim
My one and only love
Em
G
Em
Bm
Em
Let me take you out un
Ebsus4
A
der the moonlight
Aaug
D
And show how the twi
Bb
Bbaug
light loves the night
D
G
Eb
G
Why he lives for an hour of loving
A
F#m
A
C#
Fdim
Em
through life times of longing
Bb
Eb
Fsus4
B
Em
D
G
A
And sings his moonlight
Outro 1
serenade
Gm
F
Bb
Am
D
Moonlight Serenade
Kurt Elling
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