Carry you home    (video)    (intro)    (midi)

 

    C - Am - F (2x)

 

         C                Am    F                      C                 - Am - F

1. Trouble is her only friend and he's back again,

       C                     Am    - F               C           - Am - F

    makes her body older        than it really is.

             C                                        Am         

    And she says it's high time she went away,

                            F               C                  - Am - F

    no one’s got much to say in this time,

       C                 Am    F        C                   G

    trouble is the only way is down, down, down.

 

  - - - - - - - - - - - -   C                       Am

As strong as you were, tender you got,

                              Em                           F

I'm watching you breathing for the last time.

                            C                              Am 

A song for your heart, but when it is quiet,

                          Em                                 F                             C

I know what it means, and I'll carry you home, I'll carry you home.

 

+ C - Am - F (2x)

 

    C                                         Am                         

2. If she had wings she would fly away,

                F                            C                       - Am - F

    and another day God will give her some.

        C                 Am    F        C                   G

    Trouble is the only way is down, down, down.

 

+ CHORUS

 

                    F                       C                   G

    And they all want pretty New York City lights,

             F                              C                                  G

    and summer’s little girl is taken from the world tonight,

                            F     C      G

    and then the stars and stripes.   - - -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                               C                      Am

As strong as you were, tender you got,

                              Em                           F

I'm watching you breathing for the last time.

                             C                             Am 

A song for your heart, but when it is quiet,

                          Em                                 F                          

I know what it means, and I'll carry you home.

 

                                                                   C        - Am - F

+ repeat CHORUS     - - -  + I’ll carry you home.

 

+ C - Am - F   - C

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (James Blunt)