Cedars Of Lebanon Guitar Tabs by U2

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 =====
-------------------

N.B. Each chord has its own “riff”:

       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 =====
------------------

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 =====
-------------------

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 =====
------------------

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 =====
----------------------------

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

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