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Artist: U2
Album: Achtung Baby (1991)
Title: One
Tabbed by: Ricardo Cartolano (rica.ca@gmail.com)
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[Tuning]
Standard: EADGBe
[Chords]
Am: x02210
Dsus2: xx0230
Fmaj7: xx3210
G: 320003
C: x32010
[Intro] (check Tab at the bottom)
Am Dsus2 Fmaj7 G
[Verse] (check Tab at the bottom)
Am Dsus2
Is it getting better
Fmaj7 G
or do you feel the same?
Am Dsus2
Will it make it easier on you,
Fmaj7 G
now you got someone to blame?
[Chorus]
C Am
You say one love, one life,
Fmaj7 C
when it's one need in the night.
C Am
One love, we get to share it,
Fmaj7 C Am Dsus2 Fmaj7 G
Leaves you baby if you don't care for it
[Verse]
Am Dsus2
Did I disappoint you?
Fmaj7 G
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
Am Dsus2
You act like you never had love
Fmaj7 G
and you want me to go without.
[Chorus]
C Am
Well, it's too late tonight
Fmaj7 C
to drag the past out into the light.
C Am
We're one, but we're not the same.
Fmaj7 C
We get to carry each other, carry each other
Am Dsus2 Fmaj7 G
one.
[Verse]
Am Dsus2
Have you come here for forgiveness?
Fmaj7 G
Have you come to raise the dead?
Am Dsus2
Have you come here to play Jesus
Fmaj7 G
to the lepers in your head?
[Chorus]
C
Did I ask too much,
Am
more than a lot.
Fmaj7
You gave me nothing,
C
now it's all I got.
C Am
We're one, but we're not the same
Fmaj7 C
Well we hurt each other, then we do it again
[Bridge]
C Am
You say love is a temple, love a higher law.
C Am
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
C G
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl.
G Fmaj7
And I can't be holding on
Fmaj7 C
to what you got, when all you got is hurt.
[Outro]
Am
One love, one blood,
Fmaj7 C
one life, you got to do what you should.
C Am
One life with each other:
Fmaj7 C
sisters, brothers.
C Am
One life, but we're not the same.
Fmaj7 C
We get to carry each other, carry each other,
C Am Fmaj7 C
One, One.
[Ending]
C Am Fmaj7 C [4x]
[Intro] (Tab)
[Chord:] Am Dsus2
[Strum:] D D U D U D D U D D U D U D D U
e|------0--0----0--0--0--0----0-0--|-0--0----0--0--0--0----0-0--|
B|------1--1----1--3--1--3----1-1--|-3--3----1--3--1--3----3-3--|
G|-0h2--2--2----2--2--2--2----2-2--|-2--2----0--2--0--2----2-2--|
D|------2--2----2--2--2--2----2-2--|-0--0----0--0--0--0----0-0--|
A|---------------------------------|----------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|----------------------------|
[Chord:] Fmaj7 G
[Strum:] D D U D U D D U D D U D U D D U
e|-0--0----0--0--0--0----0-0--|-3--3----3--3--3--3---3-3--|
B|-1--1----3--1--3--1----1-1--|-0--1----0--1--0--1---0-0--|
G|-2--2----2--2--2--2----2-2--|-0--0----0--0--0--0---0-0--|
D|-3--3----3--3--3--3----3-3--|-0--0----0--0--0--0---0-0--|
A|----------------------------|-2--2----2--2--2--2---2-2--|
E|----------------------------|-3--3----3--3--3--3---3-3--|
[Verse] (Tab)
[Chord:] Am Dsus2
[Strum:] D D U D U D D U D D U D U D D U
e|-0--0----0--0--0--0----0-0--|-0--0----0--0--0--0----0-0--|
B|-1--1----1--3--1--3----1-1--|-3--3----1--3--1--3----3-3--|
G|-2--2----2--2--2--2----2-2--|-2--2----0--2--0--2----2-2--|
D|-2--2----2--2--2--2----2-2--|-0--0----0--0--0--0----0-0--|
A|----------------------------|----------------------------|
E|----------------------------|----------------------------|
[Chord:] Fmaj7 G
[Strum:] D D U D U D D U D D U D U D D U
e|-0--0----0--0--0--0----0-0--|-3--3----3--3--3--3---3-3--|
B|-1--1----3--1--3--1----1-1--|-0--1----0--1--0--1---0-0--|
G|-2--2----2--2--2--2----2-2--|-0--0----0--0--0--0---0-0--|
D|-3--3----3--3--3--3----3-3--|-0--0----0--0--0--0---0-0--|
A|----------------------------|-2--2----2--2--2--2---2-2--|
E|----------------------------|-3--3----3--3--3--3---3-3--|One chords and lyrics
Free chords for One by U2. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.
********** Artist: U2 Album: Achtung Baby (1991) Title: One Tabbed by: Ricardo Cartolano (rica.ca@gmail.com) ********** [Tuning] Standard: EADGBe [Chords] Am: x02210 Dsus2: xx0230 Fmaj7: xx3210 G: 320003 C: x32010 [Intro] (check Tab at the bottom) Am Dsus2 Fmaj7 G [Verse] (check Tab at the bottom) [Chorus] [Verse] [Chorus] [Verse] [Chorus] [Bridge] [Outro] [Ending] C Am Fmaj7 C [4x]
One Chords by U2
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