(Everything I Do) I Do It For You | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| Db (Dbadd4) | Dbsus2 | Gb (Gbmaj13) | Ab/Eb |
Verse 1
| Db (Dbadd4) | Dbsus2 |
Look into my eyes you will see,
| Gb | Ab/Eb |
what you mean to me.
| Db (Dbadd4) | Dbsus2 |
Search your heart, search your soul.
| Gb | Absus4 Ab/Eb |
And when you find me there, you’ll search no more.
Bridge 1
| Ebm11 | Gbsus4/Eb |
Don’t tell me it’s not worth trying for.
| Ebm11 | Gbsus4/Eb |
You can’t tell me it’s not worth dying for.
Chorus 1
| Db (Dbadd4) | Ab | Db | Db5 |
You know it’s true. Everything I do, I do it for you.
Verse 2
| Db (Dbadd4) | Dbsus2 |
Look into your heart, you will find.
| Gb | Ab/Eb |
There is nothing there to hide.
| Db (Dbadd4) | Dbsus2 |
Take me as I am, take my life.
| Gb | Absus4 Ab/Eb |
I would give it all, I would sacrifice.
Bridge 2
| Ebm11 | Gbsus4/Eb |
Don’t tell me it’s not worth fighting for.
| Ebm11 | Gbsus4/Eb |
I can’t help it, there’s nothing I want more.
Chorus 2
| Db (Dbadd4) | Ab | Db (Dbsus4) | Db |
You know it’s true. Everything I do, I do it for you. Oh yeah.
Middle 8
| B | E |
There’s no love, like your love.
| B | F# |
And no other, could give more love.
| Db | Ab |
There’s nowhere, unless you’re there.
| Eb | Ab Absus4 | Ab |
All the time, all the way, yeah.
Solo
||: Gb | Gb (Gb6) | Db (Dbsus4) | Db :||
Look into your heart baby. Yeah. Oh yeah
Bridge 3
| Ebm11 | Gbsus4/Eb |
Oh, you can’t tell me it’s not worth trying for.
| Ebm11 | Gbsus4/Eb |
I can’t help it, there’s nothing I want more.
Middle 8 2
| Db | Ab |
Yeah, I would fight for you, I’d lie for you.
| Gb | Gbm | Gbm |
Walk the wire for you, yeah, I’d die for you.
Chorus 3
| Db (Dbadd4) | Ab | Gb (Gbmaj13) | Db |
You know it’s true. Everything I do, oh, oh, I do for you.
Outro
||: Gb | Gb (Gb6) | Db (Dbsus4) | Db :||
Everything I do, darling.
Yea we’ll see it through. We’ll see it through, oh, yeah. Yeah!
Search your heart, search your soul. You can’t tell me it ain’t worth dyin’ for.
I’ll be there. I’d walk the fire for you. Yeah I’d die for you.
Oh, yeah. All the time. I’m going all the way, all the way.
Yeah, yeah, oh. Oh!
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You Chords: Learn the progressions
Search the internet for (Everything I Do) I Do It For You chords and you’ll see most results suggesting you should play standard open-position chords in the key of C, putting a capo on fret 1.
A capo on fret 1 is always awkward anyway, but when it comes to (Everything I Do) I Do It For You’s chords, it’s not just awkward, it sounds wrong.
Clearly, playing in the key of Db and trying to fit in all those extensions you saw above is very difficult, on the acoustic maybe even impossible, so let’s use a capo on fret 4, thinking in A instead.
All of a sudden, you’ll now sound like the original piano part and it all falls into place. Let’s compare, here’s the verse in the key of Db.
| Db (I) (Dbadd4) | Dbsus2 | Gb (IV) | Ab/Eb (V) |
| Db (Dbadd4) | Dbsus2 | Gb | Absus4 Ab/Eb |
In the key of A, it seems so much easier!
| A (I) (Aadd4) | Asus2 | D5 (IV) | E/B (V) |
| A (Aadd4) | Asus2 | D5 | Esus4 E/B |
Here’s the TAB for how to play Everything I Do I Do It For You‘s verse, using a capo on fret 4.
Here’s a link to the complete lesson: (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You is the 12th best-selling single of all time!
Released as a single from the soundtrack for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). (Everything I Do) I Do It For You is one of the most successful tunes of all time.
As a #1 in 19 countries, it broke the record for longest consecutive #1 in the U.K. with 16 weeks at the top. In the U.S. it sold over 4 million copies.
With 16 million copies sold worldwide, it is the 12th best-selling single of all time.
Most people probably forgot the outro which has a phenomenal guitar solo. I feel an intense need to record this to make lessons, there is so much to learn from this Bryan Adams classic.
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