Beautiful Day - U2

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Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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The song starts with piano that follows these chords:

[Intro]
      

    

In the live The Edge plays harmonics (with delay):

e|------------
B|---------7--
G|------------
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

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--------------
-7--------7---
-----7--------
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--------------

--------------
7-------------
-----7--------
---------7----
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--------------

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---------|
7--------|
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The heart is a

                  
 bloom,
             
shoots up thro

    
ught the stony

 ground
              
But there's no

                  
 room,
             
no space to re

    
nt in this tow

n


Now The Edge plays these notes with delay (420ms):

[Riff 1]

e|------------
B|------------
G|-------6---7
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

--------0-----
---0--------0-
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--------------
--------------
--------------

--------------
--------------
---6---7---6--
-----------7--
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--------------

--0------|
-----0---|
---------|
---------|
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You're out of 

                 
luck
             
and the reason

        
 that you had 

to care,
              
the traffic is

                   
 stuck
             
and you're not

       
 moving anywhe

re.
              
You thought yo

             
u'd found a fr

               
iend
             
to take you ou

     
t of this plac

e
              
Someone you co

           
uld lend a han

     
d
             
in return for 


grace

It's a beautiful day


[Riff 2]

            
e|------5----7
B|------5----7
G|------6----7
D|------7----9
A|------7----9
E|------5----7

           
----10----3---
----10----3---
----11----4---
----12----5---
----12----5---
----10----3---

             
3--------10---
3--------10---
4--------11---
5--------12---
5--------12---
3--------10---

        
-10-----5----5
-10-----5----5
-11-----6----6
-12-----7----7
-12-----7----7
-10-----5----5

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The sky falls and you feel like
It's a beautiful day
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away


Riff 1 (more heavily):
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 it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day


Riff 2:
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

Now changed the chords

[Riff 3]
(Take a look to the selector of the guitar (down))

e|------------
B|-----14----1
G|-----14----1
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

--------------
4----14----12-
4----14----14-
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--------------
--------------

--------------
--14----15---1
--14----14---1
--------------
--------------
--------------

-----------|
5---15-----|
2---12-----|
-----------|
-----------|
-----------|

e|------------
B|-----15---15
G|-----12---12
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

--------------
---15---15---1
---12---14---1
--------------
--------------
--------------

--------------
5----15---14--
4----14---14--
--------------
--------------
--------------

-----------|
-15--------|
-14--------|
-----------|
-----------|
-----------|

e|------------
B|-----14----1
G|-----14----1
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

--------------
2---14---12---
4---14---14---
--------------
--------------
--------------

--------------
14---12----14-
14---14----14-
--------------
--------------
--------------

-----------|
---12---14-|
---14---14-|
-----------|
-----------|
-----------|

          
Touch me,     

             
   take me to 

     
the other plac

e
          
Teach me,     

             
   I know I'm 

     
not a hopeless

 case


[Riff 1] (with the old chords A Bm D..)



See the world 

in green and b

lue

See China righ

t in front of 

you
            
See the canyon

  
s broken my cl

oud

See the tuna f

leets clearing

 the sea out
            
See the bedoui

 
n fires at nig

ht

See the olis f

ields at first

 light
            
See the bird w

   
ith a leaf inh

er mouth

After the floo

d all the colo

urs came out

It was a beautiful day


Riff 2:
Beautiful day
Don't let it get away


Riff 3:
          
Touch me,     

            
  take me to t

hat other plac

e
          
Reach me,     

             
  i know i'm n


ot a hopeless 

case


And now there is the riff that I prefer:

[Riff 4]

e|------------
B|-----------7
G|-------6----
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

-------0------
--------------
----6------7--
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--------------
--------------

---------0----
-7------------
-----7----7---
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--------------
--------------

-------0------
--8---------8-
----7----7----
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--------------
--------------

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---|
-7-|
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---|
---|

e|------------
B|----------7-
G|------7-----
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

-----0--------
--------------
--7-------7---
--------------
--------------
--------------

--------0----0
7------------5
----7---------
--------------
--------------
--------------

--0--0--0--0--
--7--5--7--5--
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--------------
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--------------

0--0-|
7--5-|
-----|
-----|
-----|
-----|

             
What you don't

           
 have you don'

          
t need it now
             
What you don't

              
 know you can 

   
feel it someon

e
             
What you don't

            
 have you don'

          
t need it now
             
You don't need

              
 it now, you d

   
on't need it n

ow

Was a beautiful day

The song finish with the riff 3:

e|------------
B|-----14----1
G|-----14----1
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

--------------
4----14----12-
4----14----14-
--------------
--------------
--------------

--------------
--14----15---1
--14----14---1
--------------
--------------
--------------

-----------|
5---15-----|
2---12-----|
-----------|
-----------|
-----------|

e|------------
B|-----15---15
G|-----12---12
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

--------------
---15---15---1
---12---14---1
--------------
--------------
--------------

--------------
5----15---14--
4----14---14--
--------------
--------------
--------------

-----------|
-15--------|
-14--------|
-----------|
-----------|
-----------|

e|------------
B|-----14----1
G|-----14----1
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

--------------
2---14---12---
4---14---14---
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--------------
--------------

--------------
14---12----14-
14---14----14-
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--------------
--------------

-----------|
---12---14-|
---14---14-|
-----------|
-----------|
-----------|

And with this:

e|------------
B|------------
G|------------
D|----7----9--
A|------------
E|----5----7--

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--12----5-----
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--10----3-----

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--------------
--------------
---12----7----
--------------
---10----5----

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e|------------
B|------------
G|------------
D|----7----9--
A|------------
E|----5----7--

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--12----5-----
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--10----3-----

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