Beautiful Day by U2 guitar tab (text):

Beautiful Day-U2

All That You Cant Leave Behind 



This is as good as I can get the tab. I?ve slaved over making this and watched Edge play it on many videos so if one person corrects my tab then they need shooting.





The main guitar in the first and second verse plays (the chords are for those people who cant play tabs and it also sounds nice with 3 guitars so one can play the tabs, one the chords and the other the tabs below):



A  Em7 D  G   D   D    A

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-6---7---7--7---7---7---6---------

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Then Edge improvises with these notes over the top quite quietly, I?ve done the first little part, listen to the song and you?ll get the flow of it. The second bar is just the other notes to use when improvising over the chords and tabs above

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------2--2--3---2--2--------|-2-3-0-------------- 

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The chorus uses 2 guitars, bar one is the chords and bar two is the tabs, Edge plays the first bar when live:

Guitar 1                                                        Guitar 2

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----------------------------------------------|--10--10--10---12-12-12---7---8-x6----7-x6---10-10-10-

---6-------------11-------4-----11-----4------|--9---9---9----11-11-11---7---7-------7-------9--9--9-

---7------9------12-------5-----12-----3------|--7---7---7----9--9---9-----------------------7--7--7-

---7x3----9x3----12x2-----5x5---12-x6--3-x6---|------------------------------------------------------

---5------7------10-------3-----10-----5------|------------------------------------------------------





The solo from the  ?Touch me, take me to that other place, Teach me, I know I?m not a hopeless case? bit is;

Edge uses quite a lot of delay on this bit

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----14---14--14--14--14--14--14--14--14--14--14--14--12--12--12--12--14--14--14--14--14--14--14------ X2 

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There is an instrumental before the middle bit it goes



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--2--2-----3-----3--3----0--0------0---0--------2---- 

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This is the part where its mainly vocals, its called a the bridge I think, I?ve wrote out the lyrics so it?s easier to work with make the notes ring!



Gadd9                                             D                                                  Gadd9

See the world in green and blue    See China Right in front of you   See the canyons broken by Cloud 



D                             Dsus4        D             Gadd9                                       D

See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out    See the Bedouin fires at night  See the oil fields at first light &



Gadd9                  G                              Dsus4               D                       A

See the bird with a leaf in her mouth   After the flood all the Colours came out!





This riff is played twice at the  ?what you don?t have u don?t need it now what you don?t know you cant feel it somehow what you don?t have u don?t need now, don?t need it now? At the same time the rhythm guitar/s are playing the chorus chords





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-----2---x7---3--x7---5--x7----------------- 

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And the final Riff of the song is the ending a small guitar solo (make sure the last chord rings for as long as possible);



------------2----------------2---0-----3------- 

---2---3------0-----2---3--------------3------- 

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Order:



The first Verse and second verse use the top two riffs, the chorus is between the first and second verse and that?s above, after the second verse is another chorus same as first just different lyrics.



 After the second chorus it?s the ?Touch me? bit then the instrumental, then the bridge.



 After the bridge is another chorus following the chorus is another ?touch me? bit.



 After the touch me bit there is the ?what you don?t have you don?t? part followed by another chorus but its played with the ?touch me? solo and the chords. 



Then there is the final riff.



The lyrics to the chorus?s and verses aren?t above and someone ill bound to complain they aren?t here so here they are:



Verse 1:

The heart is a bloom

Shoots up through the stoney ground

But there?s no room

No space to rent in this town

You outta luck

And the reason that you had to care

The traffic is Stuck

And you?re not moving anywhere

You thought you?d found a friend

To take you out of this place

Someone you can lend, a hand

In return for Grace



Chorus 1:

It?s a beautiful Day!!!

The sky falls and you feel like

It?s a beautiful day!!

Don?t let it get away



Verse 2:

You?re on the road

But you?ve got no destination

You?re in the mud

In the maze of her imagination

You love this town

Even if it doesn?t ring true

You?ve been all over and its been all over you



Chorus 2:

It?s a beautiful day!!!

Don?t let it get away

It?s a beautiful Day!!

Oh oh





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