You Carried Us Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays437

You Carried Us by Portugal The Man is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, Bm, F#, G, A, E and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D 
Share with me the sun 
    Bm                        D 
You forget sometime it's ours 
                             Bm 
Can't you see you're not the only one 
D 
You're told to lead outside 
        Bm                  D 
Feel it sulk into your mind 
                             Bm 
Can't you see you're not the only one 
       F#                               G 
As you slipped on down the length of my tongue 
                  D        A       E   F# G A G A 
Did you taste the sun that I need home 

D              Bm 
You carried us all 
              G 
Down from the stars 
                A 
And up from the sea (Where everybody knew) 
D                A 
All you see, and all you hear 
       Bm       F# 
Is all you need,  and all you breathe 
G 
While you create 
                 A 
And it's in your mind 


D  Bm  D   Bm 



D 
Share with me the sun 
      Bm                      D 
We'll forget all that is ours 
                     Bm 
Forget me and all the things you see 
F#                                G  
The times already came in the news  
           D         A         Em   F# G A G A 
It was the word that took your brain 

D              Bm 
You carried us all 
              G 
Down from the stars 
                A 
And up from the sea (Where everybody knew) 
D                A 
All you see, and all you hear 
       Bm       F# 
Is all you need,  and all you breathe 
G 
While you create 
                 A 
And it's in your mind 


D  Bm  D   Bm  
  
D
There's nothing I can say or do 
Bm
(There's nothing I can say or do) 
D 
And there's no light for me to see 
Bm
(And there's no light for me to see) 
Em 
So there was nothing left to do 

D                   Bm 
You, You carried us all 
              G 
Down from the stars 
                A 
And up from the sea 
D              Bm 
You carried us all 
              G 
Down from the stars 
                A 
And up from the sea (where everybody knew) 

D                A 
All you see, and all you hear 
       Bm       F# 
Is all you need,  and all you breathe 
G 
While you create 
                 A 
And it's in your mind 

D
There's nothing I can say or do 
Bm
(There's nothing I can say or do) 
D 
And there's no light for me to see 
Bm
(And there's no light for me to see) 
Em 
So there was nothing left to do 
Em 
So there was nothing left to do 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante