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A Sort Of Homecoming

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## To: jamesb@animal-farm.nevada.edu Subject: CRD: A Sort of Homecoming (U2) U2 A Sort of Homecoming (From the album "The Unforgettable Fire") -------------------- 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 G6 D2 through the sleet and driving snow G6 D2 across the fields of mourning to a G6 light's in the distance D2 G6 D4 D2 And you hunger for the time G6 D2 time to heal, 'Desire', time G6 D2 and your earth moves beneath G6 D2 your own dream landscape G6 D2 Oh, ho, ho on borderland we run________ G G2 G G2 D2 D4 D Gii I'll be there, I'll be there G G2 G G2 tonight, a high road, a high road out of here D2 D4 D Gii 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 G6 D2 G6 D2 O come away, o come away, o come, o come away I say I G6 D2 G6 D2 Oh, ho, ho on borderland we run, and still we run, we run and don't look back G G2 G G2 D2 D4 D G I'll be there, I'll be there tonight tonight tonight G G2 G G2 D2 D4 D D4 I'll be there tonight, I believe. I'll be there so high (land), C7 I'll be there tonight, tonight____________ D D2 G6 D2 O come away, I sing I say, um ha, o come away oh say. G6 D2 G6 D2 The wind will crack in wintertime G6 this bomb-blast lightning waltz D2 G6 no spoken words, just a scream . . . yeah.... oh........ oh..... D2 G6 D2 G6 D4 D G G2 G G2 tonight we'll build a bridge across the sea and land D2 D4 D Gii see the sky burning rain G G2 she will die and live again tonight_______ G G2 D2 D4 D Gii G6 D2 G6 D4 D G6 D2 G6 D4 D 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) ----------------- 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
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