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"When Love Comes to Town"

    You actually don't play the chords that are in parenthesis, if you
do an acoustic version, play then all of them, but the actual guitar
part played by The Edge is what you see w/o parenthesis.

    The rhythm guitar part is just change between A and E: just hit each
chord once one after the other and let it ring until the next one like
that, if you listen closely to the tape you can hear it. All music stops
where I wrote "E(stop),"But The Edge has a delay going over his rhythm
part and you can hear it really clear at the stops.


Intro(Bono): guitar part just as in the first two lines of verse:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Verse1(Bono):
(E)                              A E
I was a sailor, I was lost in sea
(E)                                           A E
I was under the waves, before loves resqued me
(E)                                   (A E)
I was a fighter I could turn on threat
    E(stop)
Now I stand accused of things I've said.

Chorus(B.B.):
(A)
Love comes to town,
                          A
I'm gonna jump that train
      E
When love comes to town,
                           A E  
I'm gonna catch that flame.

Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down,
        E(stop)
But I did what I did before love came to town.

This is the B.B.'s fill, do it twice:
(* means bend it up 1/4 of a step)

--------------------E
---5*--5*----3-3----B
------------------4-G
--------------------D
--------------------A
--------------------E

Verse 2(Bono):

Used to make love under the red sunset,
I was making promises I that were soon to forget.
She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown,
But I left her standing before love came to town.

Verse 3(Bono):

Ran into a juke joint when I heard a guitar scream,
The notes were turning blue as days are a dream.
As the music played I saw my life turn around
That was the day before love came to town.

Chorus(B.B.):

The Edge solo (he picks open E chord)
Play the figure 4 times (# this note plays only the first time):

0#-|-----------0-|----------E
---|--0----------|----------B
---|----1--------|----------G
---|-----2-------|----------D
---|-------2-----|----------A
---|---------0---|----------E  

Chorus(B.B.) over The Edge's solo part (the figure above):

B.B.'s solo, sorry I do not remember it, but it is basically played
around the fill he does between the first chorus and the second verse.

Verse 4(B.B.), there is no guitar part over this one:

I was there when they crucified my lord
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword
I threw the dice as they pierced his side,
But I've seen love conquer the great divide.

Chorus(B.B.):

The second solo by B.B. in the beginning of which Bono sings his famous:
"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.........."
And it fades as B.B. solos.


U2 albums
2004 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
2000 All That You Can't Leave Behind
1997 Pop
1993 Zooropa
1991 Achtung Baby
1988 Rattle And Hum
1987 The Joshua Tree
1984 The Unforgettable Fire
1983 Under A Blood Red Sky
1983 War
1981 October
1980 Boy
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