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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