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Speak Low

Bill Evans

JazzAdvanced for beginners17 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C7×○
C9Diagram coming soon
F6Diagram coming soon
D7××○
BbmDiagram coming soon
EbDiagram coming soon
Eb9Diagram coming soon
G9Diagram coming soon
Gm7Diagram coming soon
C5Diagram coming soon
F
Fm7Diagram coming soon
AbmDiagram coming soon
FdimDiagram coming soon
E7○○○○
D××○
Bb7Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              C7/9   Gm9 C9                        Gm9 
Speak low    when you speak, love 
C9                 Gm9  C9         Gm9 C7  F6            D7    
Our summer day    withers away  too soon, too soon 
           Bbm  Eb/9                   Bbm     
Speak low   when you speak, love 
        Eb9            G9                      C9     C7/9            F6          D7 Gm7 C5+ 
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift, we're swept apart, too      soon 
C7/9   Gm9 C9                   Gm9 
Speak low,   darling, speak low 
C9           Gm9   C9            Gm9  C9  F6          D7     
Love is a spark, lost in the dark   too soon, too soon 
   Bbm     Eb9     Bbm        Eb9             G9                      C9          C7/9-           F 
I feel wherever I go that tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here and always too soon 
Fm7                        Abm              Eb7M                          Fdim   E7  
Time is so old and love so brief love is pure gold and time    a   thief 
C5+   Gm9  C9                Gm9 
We're late, darling, we're late 
         C9         Gm9      C9            Gm9  C7   F6           D   Bbm  Gm5-/7      F 
The curtain descends, ev'ry thing ends  too soon, too soon  I wait, darling, I wait 
         Bb7/13- D7     G9                       C7/9/13-           F 
Will you        speak low to me, speak love to me and soon  
C7/9   Gm9 C9                       Gm9 C9                 Gm9  C9         Gm9 C7  F6            D7    
Speak low    when you speak, love  our summer day    withers away  too soon, too soon 
           Bbm  Eb/9                   Bbm     
Speak low   when you speak, love 
        Eb9            G9                      C9     C7/9            F6          D7 Gm7 C5+ 
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift, we're swept apart, too      soon 
C7/9   Gm9 C9                   Gm9 C9           Gm9   C9            Gm9  C9  F6          D7     
Speak low,   darling, speak low   love is a spark, lost in the dark   too soon, too soon 
   Bbm     Eb9     Bbm        Eb9             G9                      C9          C7/9-           F 
I feel wherever I go that tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here and always too soon 
Fm7                        Abm   
Time is so old and love so brief 
Eb7M                          Fdim   E7  
Love is pure gold and time    a   thief 
C5+   Gm9  C9                Gm9 
We're late, darling, we're late 
         C9         Gm9      C9            Gm9  C7   F6           D       Bbm  Gm5-/7  F 
The curtain descends, ev'ry thing ends  too soon, too soon I wait, darling, I wait 
         Bb7/13- D7     G9                       C7/9/13-           F 
Will you        speak low to me, speak love to me and soon

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Chord set

C7 · C9 · F6 · D7 · Bbm · Eb · Eb9 · G9 · Gm7 · C5 · F · Fm7 · Abm · Fdim · E7 · D · Bb7

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.