We Are Young Acoustic tab by Fun.

Tabs

Standard tuning
Capo 3rd fret


   D MajorD
e|----2~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|----3~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|----2~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|----0~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|----0~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----X------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  ¨Give me a second I, I need to get my story straight¨

   BbmBbm
e|----2~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|----3~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|----4~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|----4~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|----2~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----X------------------------------------------------------------------------|
   ¨My friends are in the bathroom, getting higher than the empire state.¨

   G+G
e|----3~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|----0~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|----0~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|----0~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|----2~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----3~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
  ¨My lover, she’s ’a waiting for me, just across the bar¨

   A augmentedA
e|----X------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|----2~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|----2~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|----2~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|----0~-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----X------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  ¨My seat’s been taken by some sunglasses, askin’ ’bout a scar.¨

  Repeat this until he says ¨by the time the bar closes¨
         G+G       A augmentedA      D MajorD      A augmentedA   G+G
e|----------------3--------------X------------2-----------X------3----------------|
BB|----------------0--------------2------------3-----------2------0----------------|
G+G|----------------0--------------2------------2-----------2------0----------------|
D MajorD|----------------0--------------2------------0-----------2------0----------------|
A augmentedA|----------------2--------------0------------0-----------0------2----------------|
E MajorE|----------------3--------------X------------X-----------x------3----------------|

 ¨So if by the time the bar closes, and you feel like falling down

   G+G        A augmentedA    D MajorD          BbmBbm
e|---3---------------x-------2---------------------2-------------------------------|
BB|---0---------------2-------3---------------------3-------------------------------|
G+G|---0---------------2-------2---------------------4-------------------------------|
D MajorD|---0---------------2-------0---------------------4-------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---2---------------0-------0---------------4-----2-------------------------------|
E MajorE|---3---------------X-------X---------------------X-------------------------------|
  ¨I’ll carry, you home, tonight.........we are young........¨

                   G+G                  A augmentedA
e|-----------------------------------3-----------------------------------X-------|
BB|-----------------------------------0-----------------------------------2-------|
G+G|-----------------------------------0-----------------------------------2-------|
D MajorD|-----------------------------------0-----------------------------------2-------|
A augmentedA|---------------------0-------------2--------------------------2--------0-------|
E MajorE|-----------------------------------3-----------------------------------X-------|
  ¨....so let’s set the world on fire, we can burn brighter, than the sun¨


All of these chords and progressions keep the same pattern untill Janelle’s part where
he starts doing the ¨na-na’s¨

 D MajorD         G+G      D MajorD        A augmentedA
e|2------------------3------------2---------------X------------------------------|
BB|3------------------0------------3---------------2------------------------------|
G+G|2------------------0------------2---------------2------------------------------|
D MajorD|0------------------0------------0---------------2------------------------------|
A augmentedA|0------------------2------------0---------------0------------------------------|
E MajorE|X------------------3------------X---------------X------------------------------|
 ¨Carry me, home tonight. Just carry me, home tonight.¨ (repeats)

We Are Young Acoustic tab

This is the guitar tablature for acoustic guitar for this popular song. This is the first single from their second album, a power-ballad mixed with up-tempo indie pop. It reaced number one on hitlists worldwide when released and showed us that Fun is still a band we can count on.  Released in september 2011 the song got a lot of radio airplay as well as time on TV. This is four minutes of Fun and the song has already been certified for five-times platinum. Standard tuning and not to hard to play.

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