I play this straight on electric, but I capo 2 on acoustic.
This is how I picked it out and set it up for our youth worship team.
BROTHER – GAVIN DEGRAW
[Intro]
B C#m - G#m C#m - B C#m - G#m
[Verse]
C#m-B C#m G#m
Ramblers in the wilderness We can’t find what we need
C#m B C#m G#m
Get a little restless from the searching, get a little worn down in between
E B C#m G#m
Like a bull chasing the matador is the man left to his own schemes
E B C#m G#m
Everybody needs someone beside them shining like a lighthouse from the sea
[Chorus]
E B G#m
Brother let me be your shelter I’ll never leave you all alone
F#
I can be the one you call, when you’re low
E B G#m
Brother let me be your fortress when the night winds are driving on
F# (HOLD 8 COUNTS)
Be the one to light the way, bring you home
[Verse]
B C#m - G#m
Face down in the desert now there’s a cage locked around my heart
E - B
I found a way to drop the keys where my failures were
C#m - G#m
now my hands can’t reach that far
E - B C#m - G#m
I ain’t made for a rivalry I could never take the world alone
E - B C#m - G#m
I know that in my weakness I am strong, but it’s your love that brings me home
[Chorus]
E B G#m
Brother let me be your shelter I’ll never leave you all alone
F#
I can be the one you call, when you’re low
E B G#m
Brother let me be your fortress when the night winds are driving on
F# (4 counts, straight to bridge)
Be the one to light the way, bring you home
[Bridge]
E B G#m
And when you call and need me near
F#
Saying where’d you go? Brother I’m right here
E B G#m
And on those days when the sky begins to fall
F#
You’re the blood of my blood, we can get through it all
B (HOLD 8 COUNTS)
(soft touch here, acapella)
Brother let me be your shelter I’ll never leave you all alone
I can be the one you call, when you’re low
(add keys single note or guitar single strum)
[Chorus]
E B G#m
Brother let me be your fortress when the night winds are driving on
F#
Be the one to light the way, bring you home
(all in)
E B G#m
Brother let me be your shelter I’ll never leave you all alone
F#
I can be the one you call, when you’re low
E B G#m
Brother let me be your fortress when the night winds are driving on
F#
Be the one to light the way, bring you home
[Outro]
G#m F#
Be the one to light the way, bring you home
G#m F# (end/ring out)
Be the one to light the way, bring you home
