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Song title:      Ordinary Love
Original Album:	 - (single by U2)
Other Album:     Long Walk to Freedom (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Words by Bono; Music by U2 and Brian Burton
Copyright © 2013 Interscope Records
Published by UMG Music Publishing Ltd

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (www.gartfrets.net)



INTRO:
Notes:
For an acoustic version, you might pick the chords as I indicate in the tab
below. However, the album version of the song has a keyboard intro, where it
just plays the chords.

B/11 is U.S. notation for Badd11.

Chords:
C#m   x46654    B/11  x2244x
G#m6  4x344x    F#    244322


  C#m                               G#m6
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------5-----------5-----------|---------4-----------4-----------|
|-----6-------6---------------6---|-----4-------4---------------4---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-4---------------4---------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-4---------------4---------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |



  B/11                              F#
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|---------4-----------4-----------|---------2-----------2-----------|
|-----4-------4---------------4---|-----3-------3---------------3---|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-2---------------2---------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-2---------------2---------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - | 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |



VERSE1:
Notes:
Chords are picked as in the INTRO Figure - repeated each verse line.

Pick the E chord as you would the other chords:

|---------------------------------|
|---------0-----------0-----------|
|-----1-------1---------------1---|
|---------------------------------|
|-2---------------2---------------|
|---------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & - |



Chords:
C#m   x46654    F#  244322
G#m6  4x344x    E   022100
B/11  x2244x


  | C#m        | G#m6                     | B/11              | F#
The sea wants to kiss the golden shore, the sunlight warms your skin

| C#m                   | G#m6           | B/11            | F#
    All the beauty that's been lost before wants to find us again

| C#m               | G#m6        | B/11           | F#
    I can't fight you anymore, it's you I'm fighting for

  | C#m      | G#m              | E            | F#
The sea throws rocks together but time leaves us polished stones

 

CHORUS1:
Chords:
C#m  x46654    B   x24442
G#m  466444    F#  244322


| C#m      | G#m               | B        | F#          | C#m
    We can't fall any further if   we can't feel ordinary love

            | G#m            | B           | F#               | C#m
And we cannot reach any higher   if we can't deal with ordinary love



[play: 4/4| C#m | G#m6 | B/11 | F# |]



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
C#m   x46654    F#  244322
G#m6  4x344x    E   022100
B/11  x2244x


| C#m       | G#m6                  | B/11            | F#
    Birds fly high in the summer sky    and rest on the breeze

| C#m                | G#m6
    The same wind will take care of you and I

| B/11                         | F#
    We'll build our house in the trees

| C#m               | G#m6          | B/11              | F#
  Your heart is on my sleeve. Did you put it there with a magic marker

| C#m               | G#m6         | E            | F#
  For years I would believe that the world couldn't wash it away



CHORUS2:
Notes:
Play as for CHORUS1.

Chords:
C#m  x46654    B   x24442
G#m  466444    F#  244322


| C#m            | G#m               | B        | F#          | C#m
   'Cause we can't fall any further if   we can't feel ordinary love

            | G#m             | B           | F#               | C#m
And we cannot reach any higher    if we can't deal with ordinary love

 

INSTRUMENTAL (over these chords):
Chords:
C#m   x46654    B/11  x2244x
G#m6  4x344x    F#    244322


[play: 4/4| C#m | G#m6 | B/11 | F# |]  [x2]

 

Guitar Instrumental (over):
Chords:
C#m  x46654    F#m  244222
A    577655    B    x24442

[4/4| C#m | A | F#m | B |]



[repeat CHORUS1] [x2]

 

OUTRO:
Chords:
C#m   x46654    B/11  x2244x
G#m6  4x344x    F#    244322


[play: 4/4| C#m | G#m6 | B/11 | F# |]  [to fade]


| C#m    | A              | B      | C#m
    Are we tough enough for ordinary love?