Only Hope by Mandy Moore
(from A Walk to Remember)
tabbed by Robin Young (paperthinxhymn@gmail.com)
TUNING: To match CD, tune all strings down two keys (as if you had the capo on the tenth
but an octave lower). The strings become DGCFAd instead of EADGBe.
CHORDS:
Em7: 022030
C9: 032033
G: 320033
Dsus: 000233
E: 022100
B: 024400
A: 002200
C: 032010
Cmaj7: 032000
Bm: 004432
INTRO:
Em7 D C9 G C9 Dsus
VERSE 1:
Em7 D C9 G
Dsus
There's a song that's inside of my soul,
Em7 D C9 G
C9 Dsus
It's the one that I’ve tried to write over and over again.
Em7 D C9 G C9 Dsus
I'm awake in the infinite cold,
Em7 D C9 G
Dsus
But you sing to me over and over and over again.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/mandy_moore/only_hope_crd_ver_6.html ]
CHORUS:
E B A
So I lay my head back down,
E B
And I lift my hands and
A B A
Pray to be only yours,
B A
I pray to be only yours,
C Cmaj7 Em7 D C9
C9 Dsus
I know now you're my only hope.
VERSE 2:
Em7 D C9 G C9 Dsus
Sing to me the songs of the stars,
Em7 D C9 G
Dsus
Of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again.
Em7 D C9 G
Dsus
When it feels like my dreams are so far,
Em7 D C9 G
Dsus
Sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again.
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE:
D Em7
I give you my destiny,
D Em7
I'm giving you all of me.
D Em7
I want your symphony,
Bm B
Singing in all that I am.
A B A
At the top of my lungs,
B A
I'm giving it back.
REPEAT CHORUS (but with three ‘I pray to be only yours’ instead of two)
Em7 D C9 G C9 Dsus
(humming for one chord progression)
end on Em7
