• Song:

    Build You Up

  • Artist:

    Nelly Furtado

  • Album:

    Lost & Found: Nelly Fur...

These are the chords for the song, although its a repetition of string picking, its 

picking of these chords.  Fairly easy either way though.

I put the F chord twice throughout the song to emphasis that it gets two measures (8 

beats) instead of one measure (4 beats)

Nelly Furtado - Build You Up
Standard Tuning
Capo on 1st Fret

Am  - 002210
E   - 022100
F   - 133211


Intro
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Am  E  F  F  x 2

Am               E        F  F     
  Baby, don't believe it

Am  E   F  F

Verse 1
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Am               E         F                F
  Baby, don't believe it, oh, it's in your eyes
Am                  E       F               F
  I can see the weakness you don't have to hide
Am                 E     F          F
  I can take you under, under my wing
Am                             E    F               F
  'Cause your voice gives me a song that I love to sing

Chorus 1
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      Am              E          F           F
Baby, they build you up only to tear you down
               Am            E                        F       F
Don't give up, baby, don't believe it, baby, don't believe it
      Am              E           F          F
Baby, they build you up only to tear you down
              Am                       E                          F        F
Baby, don't believe it, baby, don't believe it, oh, it's good for nothing


Verse 2 (same as 1st verse)
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You were just a child, ready to explore
And everything you saw looked like an open door
A place you can remember, you'd love to go back
But you can't even comprehend that it's all in the past

Chorus 2
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      Am              E          F            F
Baby, they build you up only to tear you down
              Am                       F                          F       F
Baby, don't believe it, baby, don't believe it, oh, it's good for nothing
      Am              E          F            F
Baby, they build you up only to tear you down
              Am                       E                         F       F
Baby, don't believe it, baby, don't believe it oh, it's good for nothing

Bridge
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Am         E           F                 F  
  Put your heart in my hands and I won't hurt you
Am         E           F                F
  Put your heart in my hands, I promise not to
Am         E           F                      F              Am
  Put your heart in my hands, I'll lift you up, you'll fly away
      E               F   F
  Fly away, lift you up

Chorus 1
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      Am              E          F           F
Baby, they build you up only to tear you down
               Am            E                        F       F
Don't give up, baby, don't believe it, baby, don't believe it
      Am              E           F          F
Baby, they build you up only to tear you down
              Am                       E                          F        F
Baby, don't believe it, baby, don't believe it, oh, it's good for nothing
 
Chorus 3
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           Am        E           F       F
I'll never build you up only to tear you down
             Am                    E                          F         F
Baby, just believe it, baby just believe it, oh it's good for something
           Am        E           F        F
I'll never build you up only to tear you down
                 Am      E       F       F       Am   E  F F
Oh it's good for nothing, I love you the way you are

Outro
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Am E F F
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