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U2
A Sort of Homecoming (From the album "The Unforgettable Fire")
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NOTE: Much of this is taken from the book The Best of U2
Intro: G6 D2 G6 D2 G6 D2 G6 D2
And you know it's time to go
GD2
through the sleet and driving snow
GD2
across the fields of mourning to a
G6
light's in the distance
DGDD2s4
And you hunger for the time
GD2
time to heal, 'Desire', time
GD2
and your earth moves beneath
GD2
your own dream landscape
GD2
Oh, ho, ho on borderland we run________
GGGGDDG2s4
I'll be there, I'll be there
GGGG2
tonight, a high road, a high road out of here
DDDG24
the city walls are all come down
the dust a smoke screen all around to see
faces ploughed like fields that once
gave no resistance
And we live by the side of the road
on the side of a hill as the valleys explode
dislocated, suffocated
the land grows weary of it's own
O come away, o come away, o come, o come away I say I hmm hmm
GDGD2
O come away, o come away, o come, o come away I say I
GDGD2
Oh, ho, ho on borderland we run, and still we run, we run and don't look back
GGGGDGsus4
I'll be there, I'll be there tonight tonight tonight
GGGGDsus4
I'll be there tonight, I believe. I'll be there so high (land),
C7
I'll be there tonight, tonight____________
DDD2
O come away, I sing I say, um ha, o come away oh say.
GDD2
The wind will crack in wintertime
G6
this bomb-blast lightning waltz
DG6
no spoken words, just a scream . . . yeah.... oh........ oh.....
DGDGG2us4
tonight we'll build a bridge across the sea and land
DDDG24
see the sky burning rain
GG2
she will die and live again tonight_______
GGDDDsus4
And you heart beats so slow
through the rain and fallen snow
across the fields of morning
to a light that's in the distance
Oh don't sorrow, no don't weep
for tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home
CHORD FORMATIONS: (This might make a nice acoustic version with these)
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G6 x x 0 0 3 0
D2 x x 0 2 3 0
D4/A x 0 0 0 3 x
G 3 x 0 0 0 x
G2 3 0 0 0 0 3
D4 x x 0 2 3 3
D x x 0 2 3 2
Gii x x 0 0 3 3 (G, type 2)
C7 x 3 2 3 1 x
But The Edge is probably playing the chorus this way
(esp. for intro of live version where it is arpeggio)
G x x x 7 8 7
G2 x x x 7 10 x
D2,D x x x 7 7 10
D4,Gii x x x 7 8 10