Casting Crowns — If We Are The Body (ver 7) Chords
Casting Crowns: If We Are the Body
Tuning: Standard Capo 2
Intro: Em7, Em/F# (repeat as needed)
(What you do is hold an Em7 chord 022003 with your pinky on the high 3 and have
your ring finger on the fret next to it to make this 022002)
Strum pattern for intro: U D DU U U DUDU
Some chords you might not know: (my naming might be incorrect, but here's the fingerings)
Asus7: x02233
Asus: x02230 (just lift up pinky)
Intro: Em7, Em/F# (repeat as needed)
VERSE 1
Em7 C2
It's crowded in worship today
Asus7 Asus C2 D/f#
As she slips in, trying to fade into the faces
Em7 C 2 Asus7 Asus
The girls' teasing laughter is carrying farther than they know
C2 D/f#
Farther than they know
CHORUS
G D/f#
But if we are the body, why aren't His arms reaching
Em7 C2
Why aren't His hands healing, why aren't His words teaching
G D/f#
And if we are the body, why aren't His feet going
Em7 D/f# C2
Why is His love not showing them there is a way
Em (into Intro)
There is a way
VERSE 2
Em7 C2
A traveler is far away from home
As A C2 D/f#
He sheds his coat and quietly sinks into the back row
Em7 C2 As
The weight of their judgemental glances tells him that his chances
A C2 D/f#
Are better out on the road
CHORUS
BRIDGE
D/f# Em7 D/f# C2
Jesus paid much too hit a price
D/f#
For us to pick and choose who should come
Em7 D/f# C2
We are the body of Christ
(Do the 1st chorus after the bridge sort of muted, and build in the 2nd)
Chorus 2x
Intro