Starlight by Taylor Swift
Album: Red
Track 15
2012
Standard Tuning
Capo on the 4th fret
Chords:
F: 133211
G: 320003 or 320033
C: x32010
Am: x02210
(To play without a capo replace the chords by A, B, E & C#m. You can also put a
capo on the 2nd fret and play G, A, D & Bm)
Intro:
F G
I said oh my what a marvelous tune
C Am
It was the best night never would forget how we moved
F G
The whole place was dressed to the nines
C Am
And we were dancing, dancing
F G
Like we're made of starlight
C (Am)
Like we're made of starlight
Verse:
F G
I met Bobby on the boardwalk, summer of '45
F
Picked me up late one night out the window
G
We were 17 and crazy running wild, wild
F G
Can't remember what song it was playing when we walked in
F
The night we snuck into a yacht club party
G
Pretending to be a duchess and a prince
Chorus:
F G
I said oh my what a marvelous tune
C Am
It was the best night never would forget how we moved
F G
The whole place was dressed to the nines
C Am
And we were dancing, dancing
F G
Like we're made of starlight, starlight
C Am
Like we're made of starlight, starlight
Verse:
F G
He said "look at you, worrying too much about things you can't change
F G
You'll spend your whole life singing the blues if you keep thinking that way"
F G
He was trying to skip rocks on the ocean, saying to me
F
"Don't you see the starlight, starlight?
G
Don't you dream impossible things?"
Chorus:
F G
Like oh my what a marvelous tune
C Am
It was the best night never would forget how we moved
F G
The whole place was dressed to the nines
C Am
And we were dancing dancing
F G
Like we're made of starlight starlight
C Am
Like we're made of starlight starlight
Bridge:
F G
Ooh ooh he's talking crazy
F G
Ooh ooh dancing with me
F G
Ooh ooh we could get married
F G
Have ten kids and teach them how to dream
Instrumental: F G C Am x4
Chorus:
F G
Oh my what a marvelous tune
C Am
It was the best night never would forget how we moved
F G
The whole place was dressed to the nines
C Am
And we were dancing dancing
F G
Like we're made of starlight starlight
C Am
Like we're made of starlight starlight
F G
Like we're made of starlight starlight
C Am
Like we dream impossible dreams
F G
Like starlight starlight
C Am
Like we dream impossible dreams
F G
Don't you see the starlight starlight
C
Don't you dream impossible things
