U2 - Cedars Of Lebanon
(No Line On The Horizon, 2009)
chords used:
Ebm x68876
Bbm 688666
Db/Ebm7 968676
Ebm* 6988xx
Db x46664
N.B. It’s easier to play this song with a capo on 1
Dm xx0231
Am x02210
G/Am7 302210
Dm* x0323x
C x32010
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===== Intro =====
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guitar 1 (capo on 1):
e-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|
A---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|
E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
guitar 2 (no capo):
e-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G-8---------------|-6---------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A-6---------------|-4---------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
guitar 1:
e-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|
A---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|
E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
guitar 2:
e-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G-8---------------|-6---------------|-3---------------|-----------------|
D-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A-6---------------|-4---------------|-1---------------|-----------------|
E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
guitar 1:
e-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D-0---0---0---0---|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2--2/-----------|
A---3---3---3---3-|-----------------|-------3--3/---0-|
E-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
guitar 2:
e-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
B-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
G-8---------------|-10--------------|-------6--------|
D-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
A-6---------------|-8---------------|-------4--------|
E-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
guitar 1:
e-----------------|-----------------|
B-----------------|-----------------|
G-----------------|-----------------|
D-----------------|-----------------|
A-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0---0---|
E---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|
guitar 2:
e-----------------|-----------------|
B-----------------|-----------------|
G-3---------------|-----------------|
D-----------------|-----------------|
A-1---------------|-----------------|
E-----------------|-----------------|
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===== Verse 1 =====
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N.B. Each chord has its own “riff”:
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/u/u2/180121.html ]
Ebm Bbm Db/Ebm7 Ebm* Db
e--------------||--------------||-------------||-------------||-------------|
B--------------||--------------||-------------||-------------||-------------|
G------8-----8-||------6-----6-||-------------||-------------||-----6-----6-|
D----8-----8---||----8-----8---||-----8-----8-||-----8-----8-||---6-----6---|
A-/6-----6-----||-/8-----8-----||---6-----6---||---9-----9---||-4-----4-----|
E--------------||--------------||-9-----9-----||-6-----6-----||-------------|
Ebm Bbm
Yesterday I spent asleep
Ebm Db/Ebm7
Woke up in my clothes in a dirty heap
Ebm Bbm
Spent the night trying to make a deadline
Ebm*
Squeezing complicated lives into a simple headline
Ebm Bbm
I have your face here in an old Polaroid
Ebm Db/Ebm7
Tidying the children’s clothes and toys
Ebm* Bbm
You’re smiling back at me, I took the photo from the fridge
Ebm*
Can’t remember what then we did
Ebm Bbm
I haven’t been with a woman, it feels like for years
Ebm Db/Ebm7
Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears
Ebm* Bbm
This shitty world sometimes produces a rose
Ebm Ebm* Ebm
The scent of it lingers and then it just goes
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===== Chorus =====
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Ebm Db/Ebm7 Ebm* Ebm* Ebm Db/Ebm7
Return the call to home
Guitar riff 1:
e-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B-/16-----14----14-----------------/16-----14----(14)-------------|
G-----15-----13-------------------------15-----13-----------------|
D--------------------16-15--13------------------------16-15--(13)-|
A-----------------------------------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------------------------|
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===== Verse 2 =====
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Ebm* Bbm
The worst of us are a long drawn out confession
Ebm Ebm*
The best of us are geniuses of compression
Ebm* Bbm
You say you’re not going to leave the truth alone
Ebm Ebm*
I’m here ‘cos I don’t want to go home
Ebm Bbm
Child drinking dirty water from the river bank
Ebm Ebm*
Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank
Ebm Db/Ebm7
I’m waiting on the waiter, he’s taking a while to come
Ebm*
Watching the sun go down on Lebanon
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===== Chorus =====
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Ebm* Db/Ebm7 Ebm* Bbm
Return the call to home
|Ebm* |Bbm |Ebm* |Ebm* |Ebm* |Bbm |Ebm* |Ebm* |
Guitar riff 2:
e----------------------------------------------|
B-1~~~---------------4-----/6--7-----/12---11--|
G----------------------------------------------|
D----------------------------------------------|
A----------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------|
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===== Verse 3 =====
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Db Bbm
Now I’ve got a head like a lit cigarette
Ebm Ebm*
Unholy clouds reflecting in a minaret
Db Bbm
You’re so high above me, higher than everyone
Ebm*
Where are you in the Cedars of Lebanon?
Interlude:
e---------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------|
G--------6---8--------------------------|
D----/8-------8--------8--6-------------|
A-6----------------6--9--------9--6-4-6-|
E---------------------------------------|
Db (guitar riff 1) Bbm
Choose your enemies carefully ‘cos they will define you
Ebm Ebm
Make them interesting ‘cos in some ways they will mind you
They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Gonna last with you longer than your friend
