SongBook  Guitar Songs and Chords

Chordpro Format

SongBook stores songs in the chordpro format, a simple format for notation of lyrics together with chords. Using your Internet search engine you can find huge collections of songs in chordpro format in the Word Wide Web.

In the chordpro format chords are denoted in square brackets [] in the text, e.g.

[Em]Alas, my [G]love, you [D]do me [Bm]wrong,

SongBook will render this as

Em       G         D     Bm
Alas, my love, you do me wrong,

In addition to the chords in square brackets, the chordpro format defines several control sequences in curly brackets {}. Songbook understands the following control statements:

{title: ...} or {t: ...}

{subtitle: ...} or {st: ...}

{comment: ...} or {c: ...}

{soc} and {eoc}

{sot} and {eot}

{define ...}

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{tempo: ...}