Carry Me - David Crosby (Tuning DADGBE)
Capo 2 for orig recording, later live performances are without the capo
Listen to the original to understand the arpeggiation or picking patterns
Chord diagrams relative to nut or capo:
D-0X0232, DM6-0X0432, C+9-XX0550, D7sus2-0X0530
A7-X02020, Em11-X04030, G69-X05050
GM6-550430, Bm-X24432, A-X02220, A11-X02030
Intro (same as chorus): D DM6 C+9 D7sus2 D repeat
D A7 Em11 G69
When I was a young man,
GM6 Bm A A11
I found an old dream
D A7 Em11 G69
was as battered and worn a one,
GM6 Bm A A11
as you have ever seen
D A7 Em11 G69
and I made it some new wings,
GM6 Bm A A11
and I painted the nose
D A7 Em11 G69 GM6
and I wished so hard, up in the air,
Bm A A11
I ro...oh...ose, singin’
D DM6 C+9 D7sus2 D
Carry me, carry me yeah, carry me, above the world
D DM6 C+9 D7sus2 D
Carry me, carry me yeah, carry me.................
D A7 Em11 G69
And I once loved a girl,
GM6 Bm A A11
she was younger than me
D A7 Em11 G69
Her parents kept her locked up in their lives And she was
GM6 Bm A A11
cryin’, she was wishin’ she could be free
D A7 Em11 G69
Of course I mostly remember her laughin’
GM6 Bm A A11
Standin’ and watchin’ us play
D A7 Em11 G69 GM6
For a while then, the music,
Bm A A11
would take her away and she'd be singin’
D DM6 C+9 D7sus2 D
Carry me, carry me yeah, carry me, above this world
D DM6 C+9 D7sus2 D
Carry me yeah, carry me, carry me, above the world
D A7 Em11 G69
And then there was my mother,
GM6
she was lying in white sheets there
Bm A A11
and she was waitin’ to die
D A7 Em11 G69
She said, “If you just reach underneath this bed,
GM6 Bm A A11
and untie these weights, I could surely fly....”
D A7 Em11 G69
She’s still smilin’ but she’s tired
GM6 Bm A A11
She’d like to hear that last bell ring
D A7 Em11 G69
You know if she still could she would,
GM6 Bm A A11
stand up, she would sing
D DM6 C+9 D7sus2 D
Carry me, oh carry me, oooh carry me, above the world
D DM6 C+9 D7sus2 D
carry me, oooh carry me yeah oooo-ooh
C+9 D7sus2 C+9 D7sus2 D
oooo-ooh, oo-oohoo, oooo-ooh, hoo-hoo
