Chords for the Carpenters, For All We Know, 1971
Tempo:
67.55 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
C
Em
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G] [Em] Look [Db] at the two of [A] us, [C] strangers [Cm] in [G] many ways
[Em] Let's [G] take a lot of [A] time to say
I knew [D] you well [G] for [C] only time
[Bm] Tell us so [Em] and [C] love may grow [D] for [G] all we [D] know
[C] [D]
[G] [D] The [C] touring [D] schedule was rough.
We started, as [Em] most groups do, without much help.
When we first hit the road, there was a small truck and [A] station wagon.
We [F] set up, we tore down, we [Eb] drove, we schlepped, we [G] did everything you had to do to make a show go.
[Em] It was a lot of fun.
It was a good thing we were young.
It was hard, but it [A] didn't matter at that time.
We were just thrilled to have a chance [D] to get out and play.
[G] We traveled a lot.
The [C] heyday, we were traveling probably 180 [D] days a year.
It would have been, I think, easier to play that many [Em] dates if the demands of recording had not been quite so heavily on the [A] shoulders of Rich and Karen.
[Am] And very heavily on Rich.
[A] He was always listening for the next [G] hit song.
And I mean, that's evidenced by [Em] some of the ways he found them.
Watching [G] television and hearing a bank commercial [A] and twigging that that's Paul Williams' voice.
Gee, I wonder if [D] there's a whole song and then it becomes, we've only just begun.
Going out to [C] relax one night to see a movie and catching a little [Bm] snippet of a song that turns out [Em] to be For [C] [D]
[G] All We Know.
That just kind of tells [C] you how constantly he was [D] thinking about the next [G] move.
[D] [C] [D]
[G] There was this girl sitting behind a drum kit singing like an [N] angel.
And I was totally amazed.
And I went over to her and I said, I'm Petula Clark.
And I started [Em] to say something.
She just went, man, I couldn't [D] actually figure out why they'd asked [C] me to sing For All We Know on the [D] Oscars.
I mean, it was very much [G] the Carpenters' song.
But I got this wonderful telegram from Karen saying, you [Bm] know, hey, sing it pretty.
Hey, [G] man.
And that was a great help to me.
It was a rule that unless a person appeared in a movie, [C] they were not allowed to perform the song, even if they'd had [Bm] the hit with it.
So we were highly [B] disappointed by this.
Now, they changed this the following year.
And of course, we introduced another song, Bless the Beast and the Children, and [Ab] went on to perform it on the Oscars.
But that year it lost a shaft.
Bless the beast [Eb] and the children.
[Gb] [F] Give them [Bb] shelter [Bbm] from the storm.
[Eb] [Ab] Keep them [F] safe.
[F] [Bb] Keep them warm.
[Bb] The children.
The children.
[Em] Let's [G] take a lot of [A] time to say
I knew [D] you well [G] for [C] only time
[Bm] Tell us so [Em] and [C] love may grow [D] for [G] all we [D] know
[C] [D]
[G] [D] The [C] touring [D] schedule was rough.
We started, as [Em] most groups do, without much help.
When we first hit the road, there was a small truck and [A] station wagon.
We [F] set up, we tore down, we [Eb] drove, we schlepped, we [G] did everything you had to do to make a show go.
[Em] It was a lot of fun.
It was a good thing we were young.
It was hard, but it [A] didn't matter at that time.
We were just thrilled to have a chance [D] to get out and play.
[G] We traveled a lot.
The [C] heyday, we were traveling probably 180 [D] days a year.
It would have been, I think, easier to play that many [Em] dates if the demands of recording had not been quite so heavily on the [A] shoulders of Rich and Karen.
[Am] And very heavily on Rich.
[A] He was always listening for the next [G] hit song.
And I mean, that's evidenced by [Em] some of the ways he found them.
Watching [G] television and hearing a bank commercial [A] and twigging that that's Paul Williams' voice.
Gee, I wonder if [D] there's a whole song and then it becomes, we've only just begun.
Going out to [C] relax one night to see a movie and catching a little [Bm] snippet of a song that turns out [Em] to be For [C] [D]
[G] All We Know.
That just kind of tells [C] you how constantly he was [D] thinking about the next [G] move.
[D] [C] [D]
[G] There was this girl sitting behind a drum kit singing like an [N] angel.
And I was totally amazed.
And I went over to her and I said, I'm Petula Clark.
And I started [Em] to say something.
She just went, man, I couldn't [D] actually figure out why they'd asked [C] me to sing For All We Know on the [D] Oscars.
I mean, it was very much [G] the Carpenters' song.
But I got this wonderful telegram from Karen saying, you [Bm] know, hey, sing it pretty.
Hey, [G] man.
And that was a great help to me.
It was a rule that unless a person appeared in a movie, [C] they were not allowed to perform the song, even if they'd had [Bm] the hit with it.
So we were highly [B] disappointed by this.
Now, they changed this the following year.
And of course, we introduced another song, Bless the Beast and the Children, and [Ab] went on to perform it on the Oscars.
But that year it lost a shaft.
Bless the beast [Eb] and the children.
[Gb] [F] Give them [Bb] shelter [Bbm] from the storm.
[Eb] [Ab] Keep them [F] safe.
[F] [Bb] Keep them warm.
[Bb] The children.
The children.
Key:
G
D
C
Em
A
G
D
C
[G] _ _ [Em] Look [Db] at the two of [A] us, [C] strangers [Cm] in [G] many _ ways
[Em] Let's [G] take a lot of [A] time to say
I knew [D] you well [G] for [C] only time
[Bm] Tell us so [Em] and [C] love may grow [D] for [G] all we [D] know
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ [D] The _ [C] touring [D] schedule was rough.
We started, as [Em] most groups do, without much help.
When we first hit the road, there was a small truck and [A] station wagon.
We [F] set up, we tore down, we [Eb] drove, we schlepped, we [G] did everything you had to do to make a show go.
[Em] It was a lot of fun.
It was a good thing we were young.
It was hard, but it [A] didn't matter at that time.
We were just thrilled to have a chance [D] to get out and play.
[G] We traveled a lot.
The [C] heyday, we were traveling probably 180 [D] days a year.
It would have been, I think, easier to play that many [Em] dates if the demands of recording had not been quite so heavily on the [A] shoulders of Rich and Karen.
[Am] And very heavily on Rich.
[A] He was always listening for the next [G] hit song.
And I mean, that's evidenced by [Em] some of the ways he found them.
Watching [G] television and hearing a bank commercial [A] and twigging that that's Paul Williams' voice.
Gee, I wonder if [D] there's a whole song and then it becomes, we've only just begun.
Going out to [C] relax one night to see a movie and catching a little [Bm] snippet of a song that turns out [Em] to be For _ [C] _ _ [D] _
[G] All We Know.
That just kind of tells [C] you how constantly he was [D] thinking about the next [G] move.
_ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ There was this girl sitting behind a drum kit singing like an [N] angel.
And I was totally amazed.
And I went over to her and I said, I'm Petula Clark.
And I started [Em] to say something.
She just went, man, I couldn't [D] actually figure out why they'd asked [C] me to sing For All We Know on the [D] Oscars.
I mean, it was very much [G] the Carpenters' song.
But I got this wonderful telegram from Karen saying, you [Bm] know, hey, sing it pretty.
Hey, [G] man.
And that was a great help to me.
It was a rule that unless a person appeared in a movie, [C] they were not allowed to perform the song, even if they'd had [Bm] the hit with it.
So we were highly [B] disappointed by this.
Now, they changed this the following year.
And of course, we introduced another song, Bless the Beast and the Children, and [Ab] went on to perform it on the Oscars.
But that year it lost a shaft.
Bless the beast [Eb] and the children. _
[Gb] _ _ [F] Give them [Bb] shelter [Bbm] from the storm.
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] Keep them [F] safe. _
[F] _ _ [Bb] Keep them warm. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ The children. _
_ _ The children. _ _ _
[Em] Let's [G] take a lot of [A] time to say
I knew [D] you well [G] for [C] only time
[Bm] Tell us so [Em] and [C] love may grow [D] for [G] all we [D] know
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ [D] The _ [C] touring [D] schedule was rough.
We started, as [Em] most groups do, without much help.
When we first hit the road, there was a small truck and [A] station wagon.
We [F] set up, we tore down, we [Eb] drove, we schlepped, we [G] did everything you had to do to make a show go.
[Em] It was a lot of fun.
It was a good thing we were young.
It was hard, but it [A] didn't matter at that time.
We were just thrilled to have a chance [D] to get out and play.
[G] We traveled a lot.
The [C] heyday, we were traveling probably 180 [D] days a year.
It would have been, I think, easier to play that many [Em] dates if the demands of recording had not been quite so heavily on the [A] shoulders of Rich and Karen.
[Am] And very heavily on Rich.
[A] He was always listening for the next [G] hit song.
And I mean, that's evidenced by [Em] some of the ways he found them.
Watching [G] television and hearing a bank commercial [A] and twigging that that's Paul Williams' voice.
Gee, I wonder if [D] there's a whole song and then it becomes, we've only just begun.
Going out to [C] relax one night to see a movie and catching a little [Bm] snippet of a song that turns out [Em] to be For _ [C] _ _ [D] _
[G] All We Know.
That just kind of tells [C] you how constantly he was [D] thinking about the next [G] move.
_ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ There was this girl sitting behind a drum kit singing like an [N] angel.
And I was totally amazed.
And I went over to her and I said, I'm Petula Clark.
And I started [Em] to say something.
She just went, man, I couldn't [D] actually figure out why they'd asked [C] me to sing For All We Know on the [D] Oscars.
I mean, it was very much [G] the Carpenters' song.
But I got this wonderful telegram from Karen saying, you [Bm] know, hey, sing it pretty.
Hey, [G] man.
And that was a great help to me.
It was a rule that unless a person appeared in a movie, [C] they were not allowed to perform the song, even if they'd had [Bm] the hit with it.
So we were highly [B] disappointed by this.
Now, they changed this the following year.
And of course, we introduced another song, Bless the Beast and the Children, and [Ab] went on to perform it on the Oscars.
But that year it lost a shaft.
Bless the beast [Eb] and the children. _
[Gb] _ _ [F] Give them [Bb] shelter [Bbm] from the storm.
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] Keep them [F] safe. _
[F] _ _ [Bb] Keep them warm. _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ The children. _
_ _ The children. _ _ _