U2 – White As Snow (Guitar Tab)

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U2 - NO LINE ON THE HORIZON Here's White as Snow, one of my favorite songs from No Line on the Horizon. It's not as complex as it looks; just use power chord shapes for for each set of notes and maintain the pattern. The lyrics are NOT lined up with the tab. Intro

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Verse One

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           "Where I came from there were no hills at all"

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         "The land was flat, the highway, straight and wide"

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"My brother and I would drive for hours, like we had years instead of days"

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                "Our faces as pale as the dirty snow"

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                "Once I knew there was a love divine"

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             "Then came a time I thought it knew me not"

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        "Who can forgive forgiveness when forgiveness is not"

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                    "Only the lamb as white a snow"

Verse 2

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Tremolo pick these notes
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"And the water it was icy as it washed over me"

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"And the moon shined above, above me"

Verse 3

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           "Now this dry ground it bears no fruit at all"

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            "Only poppies laugh under a crescent moon"

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     "The road refuses strangers, the land, the seeds we sow"

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             "Where might we find a lamb as white as snow"

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            "As boys we would go hunting in the woods"

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            "To sleep the night, shooting out the stars"

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 "Now the wolves are every passing stranger, every face we cannot know"

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             "If only a heart could be as white as snow"

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             "If only a heart could be as white as snow"