Marry You | Chords + Lyrics (no capo)
Intro
| F | F | Gm | Gm |
| Bb | Bb | F | F |
Chorus 1
| F | F | Gm | Gm |
It’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do.
| Bb | Bb | F | F |
Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.
| F | F | Gm | Gm |
Is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice?
| Bb | Bb | F | F |
Who cares, baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Verse 1
| F | F | Gm | Gm |
Well, I know this little chapel on the boulevard we can go.
| Bb | Bb | F | F |
No one will know, oh come on, girl.
| F | F | Gm | Gm |
Who cares if we’re trashed, got a pocket full of cash we can blow.
| Bb | Bb | F | F |
Shots of patron and it’s on, girl.
Bridge 1
| F | F | Gm | Gm |
Don’t say no, no, no, no, no. Just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
| Bb | Bb | F | F |
And we’ll go, go, go, go, go. If you’re ready, like I’m ready.
Chorus 2
‘Cause it’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares, baby, I think I wanna marry you, oh.
Verse 2
I’ll go get a ring, let the choir bells sing like, oh oh ooh.
So what ya wanna do? Let’s just run, girl.
If we wake up and you wanna break up, that’s cool.
No, I won’t blame you, it was fun, girl.
Bridge 2
Don’t say no, no, no, no, no. Just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we’ll go, go, go, go, go. If you’re ready, like I’m ready.
Chorus 3
‘Cause it’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares, baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Middle 8
| F | F | Gm | Gm |
Just say I do, oh oh.
| Bb | Bb | F | F |
Tell me right now, baby. Tell me right now, baby, baby
| F | F | Gm | Gm |
Just say I do, oh, oh.
| Bb | Bb | F | F |
Tell me right now, baby. Tell me right now, baby, baby, oh.
Chorus 4
It’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares, baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Marry You | Chords + Lyrics (capo 3)
Intro
| D | D | Em | Em |
| G | G | D | D |
Chorus 1
| D | D | Em | Em |
It’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do.
| G | G | D | D |
Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.
| D | D | Em | Em |
Is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice?
| G | G | D | D |
Who cares, baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Verse 1
| D | D | Em | Em |
Well, I know this little chapel on the boulevard we can go.
| G | G | D | D |
No one will know, oh come on, girl.
| D | D | Em | Em |
Who cares if we’re trashed, got a pocket full of cash we can blow.
| G | G | D | D |
Shots of patron and it’s on, girl.
Bridge 1
| D | D | Em | Em |
Don’t say no, no, no, no, no. Just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
| G | G | D | D |
And we’ll go, go, go, go, go. If you’re ready, like I’m ready.
Chorus 2
‘Cause it’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares, baby, I think I wanna marry you, oh.
Verse 2
I’ll go get a ring, let the choir bells sing like, oh oh ooh.
So what ya wanna do? Let’s just run, girl.
If we wake up and you wanna break up, that’s cool.
No, I won’t blame you, it was fun, girl.
Bridge 2
Don’t say no, no, no, no, no. Just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we’ll go, go, go, go, go. If you’re ready, like I’m ready.
Chorus 3
‘Cause it’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares, baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Middle 8
| D | D | Em | Em |
Just say I do, oh oh.
| G | G | D | D |
Tell me right now, baby. Tell me right now, baby, baby
| D | D | Em | Em |
Just say I do, oh, oh.
| G | G | D | D |
Tell me right now, baby. Tell me right now, baby, baby, oh.
Chorus 4
It’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do.
Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares, baby, I think I wanna marry you.
Marry You Chords: Learn the progressions
The ultimate easy-to-learn wedding tune we have from Bruno Mars in Marry You. As there are only three chords, you won’t have to rehearse this one!
Using Roman Numerals, the chords for Marry You are just this:
||: F (I) | F | Gm (II) | Gm |
| Bb (IV) | Bb | F | F :||
This loop never stops, it’s the same chords for all sections of Marry You, could it be any easier?!?
Perhaps for a beginner, it’s tricky as these need to be played as barre chords. Well, the Gm could be an open-position chord, but still, F and Bb have to be barre chords.
The tempo is also pretty quick and if you’ve left the capo at home, and you’re the only guitarist to accompany a singer, you may have to play a very demanding part.
I’ve designed some TAB for you that describes this, check that part of the lesson here: Marry You – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Try playing that along with the original recording from beginning to end and you’ll soon discover that playing Marry You’s chords without a capo, is actually really demanding!
Let’s look at how you can find a way around this using a capo.
- Fret 1: E – F#m – A – E, the F#m chord is barre
- Fret 3: D – Em – G – D, no barre chords!
- Fret 5: C – Dm – F – C, the F chord is barre
- Fret 8: A – Bm – D – A, the Bm chord is barre.
Looks to me like the best way is to play Marry You using a capo on fret 3, thinking in the key of D. In the TAB lesson, you get TAB for how to play this tune with a capo on frets 1, 3, 5, and even fret 8.
Each position will require the strumming to change, making this a really interesting guitar lesson that will teach you more than just how to play Marry You’s chords.
Coming out the other end of that exercise, you just need a chord chart, here’s one I made for you.
Marry You Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
I may have given the game away with this chord chart as I wrote both the keys of F and D. Meaning all other places to put the capo (1, 5, and 8) aren’t as good.
I still think you should go through the process and try all the areas I’ve written TAB for.
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Marry You Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: Marry You iReal Pro.
Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key, although as discussed, it’s best to play it in F, moving around the fretboard using barre chords as you play in a band, or use a capo on fret 3.
Marry You charted in the U.S. even though it was never released there as a single!
Released in 2010 on Bruno Mars’s debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Marry You was not released a single in the U.S., but it still reached #85 in the charts.
Worldwide, it was released as a single and did reasonably well, hitting the top 10 in as many countries.
Despite not being a single, the U.S. population ended up buying 4 million copies of it, perhaps this was because they used it as a proposal song!
The Glee cast recorded a cover of Marry You and reached #32 in the U.S., I’ve included their version in the playlist above.
In many ways, Marry You launched Bruno Mars to the world with his easygoing, straight-to-the-point songwriting, reminiscent of Jason Mraz.
Unlike Mraz, Bruno has since gone on to develop in all sorts of directions and become a superstar.
Apart from his own smash hits, he also wrote songs for other people around this time, for example, Forget You for CeeLo Green.
Marry You Chords | Related Pages
Marry You | Guitar Lesson + TAB
With this guitar lesson, you can learn to play Marry You by Bruno Mars using TAB and chord analysis.
| F | F | Gm | Gm |
It’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do.
Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics
- Breakfast At Tiffany’s chords by Deep Blue Something
- Down Under chords by Men At Work
- I’m Yours chords by Jason Mraz
- Kiss Me chords by Sixpence None The Richer
- Save Tonight chords by Eagle-Eye Cherry
Bruno Mars tunes
The best-selling male artist since 2010, Bruno Mars has a string of hits to his name, as well as being the writer for other famous artists like CeeLo Green.
Bruno’s smash hits include Locked Out Of Heaven, Forget You, Uptown Funk, Leave The Door Open, Treasure, and Marry You.
Bruno Mars on the web
About me | Dan Lundholm
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