|Bm|Bm|A|A|G|E|Bm|Bm|A|A|G|F#m|Bm|

[Verse 1]

     Bm          G         Bm        F#m
The leaves were long, the grass was green,
     G      Bm      D        A
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
    Bm      G       D         Em
And in the glade a light was seen
    Em   A   Bm      D    A
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
   D          A        D
Tinuviel was dancing there
    D          D      A
To music of a pipe unseen,
     Bm        G       D      A
And light of stars was in her hair,
    Bm      A        G    A
And in her raiment glimmering.

[Bridge]

|A D|E Bm|Bm|E B|

[Verse 2]

       B     G         D        F#m
There Beren came from mountains cold,
     G   A  Bm       D      A
And lost he wandered under leaves,
     Bm       G      D    F#m
And where the Elven-river rolled.
    G       Bm       D    A
He walked along and sorrowing.
    Bm        G        D       A
He peered between the hemlock-leaves
    Bm      G      Bm         A
And saw in wonder flowers of gold
 Bm      F#m     A       Bm
Upon her mantle and her sleeves,
         G          A    F#m   G     |   G
And her hair like shadow following.

[Bridge]

|Bm G|A F#m|G|Bm|Bm|F# E|B|G#m|C#m B|
|F#|F#|

[Verse 3]

   G#m                 G#m    F#
Enchantment healed his weary feet
    G#m    E          E        F#
That over hills were doomed to roam;
     G#      G#m         F#         E
And forth he hastened, strong and fleet,
      E        G#m         B   F#
And grasped at moonbeams glistening.
        G#m   F#       E    F#
Through woven woods in Elvenhome
     E      G#m     G#m     F#   |  F#
She lightly fled on dancing feet,
    G#m      F#     G#m   E
And left him lonely still to roam
       G#m    F#         D#m E    |   E
In the silent forest lis-ten-ing.

[Bridge]

|G#m|G#m|E|F# D#m|G#m|G#m|E|D#m|
|G#m|G#m|Bbm|

[Verse 4]

   Bbm                  Ab     Bbm
He heard there oft the flying sound
   Gb      Db              Fm
Of feet as light as linden-leaves,
   Gb    Ab      Bbm
Or music welling underground,
   Gb     Ab      Fm    Gb     |      Gb
In hidden hollows quavering.
    Bbm          Db  Ab       Bbm
Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves,
    Gb     Db       Db      Fm
And one by one with sighing sound
  Gb       Ab       Bbm
Whispering fell the beechen leaves
       Gb      Ab      Fm  D#m    |    D#m
In the wintry woodland wavering.

[Verse 5]

   D#m        B     C#         B
He sought her ever, wandering far
       B         F#         D#m      A#m
Where leaves of years were thickly strewn,
    B        C#      D#m
By light of moon and ray of star
     B     C#      A#m  B
In frosty heavens shivering.
A#m D#m         F# C#      G#
Her mantle glinted in the moon,
   B     F#      D#m      A#m
As on a hill-top high and far
     B          C#      B   D#m
She danced, and at her feet was strewn
   B      C#     A#m   B         |      B
A mist of silver quivering.

[Bridge]

|B|D#m5|G#m|D#m|D#m F#|F# B|B|D#m|
|D#m C# C# C#|C# B|B|D#m|C#|C#|C#|D#m5|
|D#m5 D#m|D#m|D#m|Bm7|D#m|D#m|

[Verse 6]

     D#m                        C#
When winter passed, she came again,
        D#m               F#       C#
And her song released the sudden spring,
     F#      B        F#       B
Like rising lark, and falling rain,
    D#m           F#    C#
And melting water bubbeling.
   F#             C#       F#
He saw the elven-flowers spring
 F#                           C#
About her feet, and healed again
   F#         B     F#        A#m
He longed by her to dance and sing
  B                     C#
Upon the grass untroubeling.

[Verse 7]

A#m D#m                 C#      D#m
A - gain she fled, but swift he came.
  F#        C#
Tinuviel! Tinuviel!
   D#m               F#     C#
He called her by her elvish name;
      B       C#      B    C#
And there she halted listening.
C#  D#m
One moment stood she, and a spell
     F#                C#
His voice laid on her: Beren came,
    D#m             F#  C#
And doom fell on Tinuviel
     D#m    C#        D#m   C#
That in his arms lay glistening.

[Verse 8]

   D#m            F#     C#
As Beren looked into her eyes
   D#m             C#
Within the shadows of her hair,
    D#m                 F#      C#
The trembling starlight of the skies
   D#m       C#         B    C#
He saw there mirrored shimmering.
  D#m        F#     C#
Tinuviel the elven-fair,
   F#           G#m   C#
Immortal maiden elven-wise,
 D#m                F#
About him cast her shadowy hair
    D#m       C#      D#m   C#   |   C#
And arms like silver glimmering.

F#|F# Fm Fm Fm|Fm

[Verse 9]

Fm                              Eb
Long was the way that fate them bore,
      Fm             Ab        Eb
O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
        Db       Fm       Eb       Db
Through halls of iron and darkling door,
    Fm       Ab         Ab     Fm
And woods of nightshade morrowless.
    Db                 Ab       Eb
The Sundering Seas between them lay,
    Fm               Db       Eb    |    Eb
And yet at last they met once more,
    Fm      Eb      Db           |  Db
And long ag-o  they passed away
       Db      Eb            B
In the forest singing sorrowless.