She Walks in Beauty is based on a poem written in 1814 by Lord Byron after attending a London evening gathering. The poem was later included in the 1815 collection Hebrew Melodies, a collaboration between Byron and composer Isaac Nathan, who set a number of Byron’s texts to music drawing on Jewish melodic associations of the period. Hebrew Melodies became an important early 19th-century cultural moment, linking Romantic poetry with staged “Hebraic” song settings for the drawing room and concert platform. The poem has since lived both independently as literature and in musical adaptations, with interpretations ranging from art song to popular recordings. This performance features voice with acoustic guitar. Details: – Song: She Walks in Beauty – Poem: Lord Byron (1814), England – Published in: Hebrew Melodies (1815) – Music: Isaac Nathan – Vox & acoustic guitar: Jason Paul
She Walks in Beauty
Lyrics and chords
VERSE I
She Cwalks in beauty, Glike the night
Of Fcloudless Cclimes and G7starry Cskies;
And Call that’s best of Gdark and bright
FMeet in her Caspect G7and her Ceyes:
CThus mellowed G/Bto that Am7tender Glight
Which G7heaven to Cgaudy G/Bday deG7nies.
She Cwalks in beauty, Glike the night
Of Fcloudless Cclimes and G7starry Cskies;
VERSE II
One Cshade the more, one Gray the less,
Had Fhalf imCpaired the G7nameless Cgrace
Which Cwaves in every Graven tress,
Or Fsoftly Clightens G7o’er her Cface;
CWhere thoughts seG/Brenely Am7sweet exGpress
How G7pure, how Cdear their G/Bdwelling G7place.
She Cwalks in beauty, Glike the night
Of Fcloudless Cclimes and G7starry Cskies;
VERSE III
And Con that cheek, and Go’er that brow,
So Fsoft, so Ccalm, yet G7eloCquent,
The Csmiles that win, the Gtints that glow,
But Ftell of Cdays in G7goodness Cspent,
A Cmind at G/Bpeace with Am7all belGow,
A G7heart whose Clove is G/BinnoG7cent!
She Cwalks in beauty, Glike the night
Of Fcloudless Cclimes and G7starry Cskies;