May It Be Chords

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Difficulty:	absolute beginner
Tuning:	E A D G B E
Capo:	no capo

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3 contributors total, last edit on Jun 9, 2021

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capo on 2
 
[Verse 1]
 
May it be
       Em            C
May it be an evening star
       G          D
Shines down upon you
       Em               C
May it be when darkness falls 
     G             D
Your heart will be true
    C              G
You walk a lonely road
        Am               D
Oh! How far you are from home
 
 
[Chorus]
 
G  Em  C    D
Mornie utúlië (darkness has come)
G        C           Am         D
Believe and you will find your way
G  Em  C    D
Mornie alantië (darkness has fallen)
G         Em      Am    D   G
A promise lives within you now
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
       Em             C
May it be the shadows call
      G    D
Will fly away
       Em             C
May it be you journey on
     G        D
To light the day
          C          G
When the night is overcome
         Am               D
You may rise to find the sun
 
 
[Chorus]
 
G  Em  C   D
Mornie utúlië (darkness has come)
G            C        Am        D
Believe and you will find your way
G Em    C    D
Mornie alantië (darkness has fallen)
G        Em         Am      D
A promise lives within you now
 
G       Em     Am      D   G
A promise lives within you now
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Thanks! Im fan of Tolkien :D Namárië! Nai Eru Aryuva Lenn!

I would swap the C from the 2nd line of the chorus (believe and you) with the Em from the 4th line (a promise lives). Then it sounds right :-)

I wanted to play along with VOCES8's choral version of May It Be which can be found on YouTube (worth a listen and better than the original in my opinion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7M5ZqFSynQ . I tuned my guitar to DADGAD tuning and transposed down -4 and capo'd the first fret. I use jguitar.com get the chord voicing right. If you're not familiar with jguitar.com go have a look. It does a fine job of handling alternative tunings, capos, chord inversions, etc. The chord progression is easy to figure out with jguitar. For playing along with the VOCES8 version with the above tuning and capo: Verses: Cm, G#, D#, A# : G#, D#, Fm, A# Chorus: D#, Cm, G#, A#, etc. Give it a try!