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Gracie Abrams – Us Chords on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsEm G C D

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These are chords by Gracie Abrams on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
Em G C

[Verse 1]
Em              G
  I know you know
It felt just like a
C
joke
I show, you don't
And now we're talkin'
Em               G
  I know your ghost
I see her through the
C
smoke
She'll play her show
    G              Em
And you'll be watchin'

[Pre-Chorus]
And if history's clear,
    D
someone
always ends up in
 C
ruins
And what seemed like
       G
fate becomes
"What the hell was
     Em
I doin'?"
          D
Babylon lovers hangin',
               C
lifetimes on a vine
(Ooh)
                G
Do you miss mine?

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[Chorus]
       G     C   D
Do you miss us, us?
I felt it, you held
it,
do you
G     C   D   G  C   D
miss us, us?
Wonder if you regret
the
       Em  D   C
secret of us, us
          G
Us (Us), us (Us),
us (Us)

[Verse 2]
G           C
 I know you know
It felt like
          D
somethin' old
It felt like somethin'
holy,
like souls bleedin'
G
So, it fеlt like what
     C
I've known
You're twеnty-nine
      D
years old
So how can you
be cold when
          G
I open my home?

[Pre-Chorus]
And if history's
clear, the
C
flames always end up
       D
in ashes
And what seemed like
fate, give it
ten months and you'll
be past it
           G
(You'll be past it)
          C
Babylon lovers hangin',
missed calls on
    D
the line
I gave you mine

[Chorus]
        G     C   D
Did you mind us, us?
I felt it, you held
it,
       G     C   D
do you miss us, us?
Wonder if you regret
the
      G    C   D
secret of us, us
Us (Us), us (Us),
us (Us)

[Bridge]
     Em
That night, you
were talkin'
      G
false prophets and
profits
     C
They make in the
margins of
D
poetry sonnets
    Em
You never read up
       G
on it, shame,
could've learned
somethin'
C                 D
Robert Bly on my
nightstand,
gifts from you,
     Em
how ironic
             G
A curse or a miracle,
             C
hearse or an oracle
            D
You're incomparable,
f**k,
       Em
it was chemical
          C
You (You) plus (Plus)
        D
me (Me) was

[Chorus]
 G   C   D
Us, us, us
I felt it, you
held it, do
    G     C   D
you miss us, us?
Wonder if you regret
the
      G    C   D
secret of us, us
Mistaken for strangers
         G   C    D
the way it was, was
The pain of, the reign
of,
           G  C   D
the flame of us, us
The outline, well,
sometimes,
       G     C   D
do you miss us, us?
The best kind, well,
sometimes,
       G
do you miss us?

How to play Us: key, chords and progression

Us by Gracie Abrams is written in G major (one sharp: F♯) and moves through 4 chords: Em, G, C and D.

Listen for G – C – D – G (I – IV – V – I in G major), the I–IV–V–I, the backbone of gospel, blues and folk: the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – fah – soh – doh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Beginner-friendly: on guitar every chord is an open shape, which makes this a good song to learn early on.