Secret Smile

Here are the names of the piano chords in the original key of Bbminor:

verses and chorus: Bbm7 Ebm9 Ab Gb Ab/Gb bass

Bridge: Db6 Eb Ab Db

Semisonic plays the song live in the key of Am, mainly because Dan only uses the standard tuning of EADGBE for his guitars.

Or you can play the guitar part capo'ed up one fret, using these transposed chords (as though the capo first fret were now called the 0th fret or open string.) There is a pattern of two notes alternating within each chord, open G and A. So each chord has three voicings, the first with a G in it, second with A, third with G again.

Am7
EADGBE
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Nobody knows it, but

Dm11
EADGBE
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You've got a se- cret

G
EADGBE
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smile and you use it

F
EADGBE
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Only for me

The bridge is four chords repeated:

C6 (piano plays the 6th)

D9
EADGBE
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Secret Smile

Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me

So use it and prove it
Remove this whirling sadness
I'm losing, I'm bluesing
But you can save me from madness

Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me

So save me I'm waiting
I'm needing, hear me pleading
And soothe me, improve me
I'm grieving, I'm barely believing now, now

When you are flying around and around the world
And I'm lying alonely
I know there's something sacred and free reserved
And received by me only