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A MAN AND A WOMAN
As recorded by U2
(From the 2004 Album HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB)
Transcribed by oranno@yahoo.fr
Words by Bono Music by U2
Arranged by oranno@yahoo.fr
Bm
7 9 9 7 7 7
A
5 7 7 6 5 5
G
3 2 0 0 0 3
F#m
2 4 4 2 2 2
Em
0 2 2 0 0 0
BmII
x 2 4 4 3 2
Aopen
x 0 2 2 2 0
F#7
2 4 2 3 2 2
Em7
0 2 2 0 3 0
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Untitled'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Untitled'
Gtr III (E A D G B E) - 'Untitled'
Gtr IV (E A D G B E) - 'Untitled'
Intro
Q=127
Bm A
4/4
Gtr II
W Q E E +Q Q +E Q E E E Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr I H Q Q Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|------------||-------2-(2)--5--|-(5)-2------------||---------5--||-0---------------|-----------5------||---------2--||-4---------------|---------------2--||------------||-----------------|------------------||------------||-----------------|------------------||------------||-----------------|------------------|
Bm A G
Q E E +Q E E +E E E E E E E S S
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)--5---|-(5)-2----------------||-0----------------|------------5---------||-4----------------|----------------2-----||------------------|----------------------||------------------|----------------------||------------------|----------------------|
Q E E +E E Q +E E Q +E E Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2-------------||-0----------------|------------5------||-4----------------|----------------2--||------------------|-------------------||------------------|-------------------||------------------|-------------------|
F#m A Bm
Q E E +E E Q +E E E E E E E S S
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2----------------|||-0----------------|------------5---------|||-4----------------|----------------2-----|||------------------|----------------------|||------------------|----------------------|||------------------|----------------------||
Verse
$
Bm A
4/4
Q E E +Q Q +E Q E E E Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q||--------2-(2)--5--|-(5)-2------------|||o-0---------------|-----------5------|||--4---------------|---------------2--|||------------------|------------------|||o-----------------|------------------|||------------------|------------------|
Bm A G
Q E E +Q E E +E E E E E E E S S
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)--5---|-(5)-2----------------||-0----------------|------------5---------||-4----------------|----------------2-----||------------------|----------------------||------------------|----------------------||------------------|----------------------|
Q E E +E E Q +E E Q +E E Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2-------------||-0----------------|------------5------||-4----------------|----------------2--||------------------|-------------------||------------------|-------------------||------------------|-------------------|
F#m A Bm
Q E E +E E Q +E E E E E E E S S
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2----------------||-0----------------|------------5---------||-4----------------|----------------2-----||------------------|----------------------||------------------|----------------------||------------------|----------------------|
A
4/4
Q E E +Q Q +E Q E E E Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)--5--|-(5)-2------------||-0---------------|-----------5------||-4---------------|---------------2--||-----------------|------------------||-----------------|------------------||-----------------|------------------|
Bm A G
Q E E +Q E E +E E E E E E E S S
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)--5---|-(5)-2-----------------||-0----------------|------------5----------||-4----------------|----------------2------||------------------|-----------------------||------------------|-----------------------||------------------|-----------------------|
Q E E +E E Q +E E Q +E E Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2-------------||-0----------------|------------5------||-4----------------|----------------2--||------------------|-------------------||------------------|-------------------||------------------|-------------------|
F#m
Q E E +E E Q +E E E E E E E S S
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2----------------|||-0----------------|------------5---------|||-4----------------|----------------2-----|||------------------|----------------------|||------------------|----------------------|||------------------|----------------------||
Pre-Chorus
Em G
Q E E +E E Q +E E Q E E E E Q E E +E E Q +E E Q E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2-------------|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2--------------||-0----------------|-----------5-------|-0----------------|-----------5--------||-4----------------|---------------2---|-4----------------|---------------2----||------------------|-------------------|------------------|--------------------||------------------|-------------------|------------------|--------------------||------------------|-------------------|------------------|--------------------|
BmII
Q E E +E E Q +E E Q E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2-------------||-0----------------|-----------5-------||-4----------------|---------------2---||------------------|-------------------||------------------|-------------------||------------------|-------------------|
Aopen
Q E E +E E Q +E E Q E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|-------2-(2)---5--|-(5)-2--------------|||-0----------------|-----------5--------|||-4----------------|---------------2----|||------------------|--------------------|||------------------|--------------------|||------------------|--------------------||
Chorus
G Aopen BmII G
Gtr II
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E S S E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr III Q Q +E Q E Q Q +E Q E E E E E +E Q E|------10---(10)---------|------10---(10)-----------|------------------------||------------------------|--------------------------|---------12-(12)-----12-||-11-------------11---12-|-11-------------11---12---|-11\-9-9---------9------||------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------||------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------||------------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|
BmIIAopeG Aopen BmII G
E E E E E E E S S E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E S S
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
+E q E H Q Q +E Q E Q Q +E Q E|----------------------|------10---(10)---------|------10---(10)-----------||-(12)-----------------|------------------------|--------------------------||------9---------------|-11-------------11---12-|-11-------------11---12---||----------------------|------------------------|--------------------------||----------------------|------------------------|--------------------------||----------------------|------------------------|--------------------------|
F#7
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / /
E E E E +E Q E +W|------------------------|--------------------||---------12-(12)-----12-|-(12)---------------||-11\-9-9---------9------|--------------------||------------------------|--------------------||------------------------|--------------------||------------------------|--------------------|
G Aopen BmII G
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E S S
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q Q +E Q E Q Q +E Q E|------10---(10)---------|------10---(10)-----------||------------------------|--------------------------||-11-------------11---12-|-11-------------11---12---||------------------------|--------------------------||------------------------|--------------------------||------------------------|--------------------------|
BmIIAopeG
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E S S E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
E E E E +E Q E +W Q Q +E Q E|------------------------|----------------------|------10---(10)---------||---------12-(12)-----12-|-(12)-----------------|------------------------||-11\-9-9---------9------|----------------------|-11-------------11---12-||------------------------|----------------------|------------------------||------------------------|----------------------|------------------------||------------------------|----------------------|------------------------|
To Coda
Aopen BmII G
E E E E E E E S S E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q Q +E Q E E E E E +E Q E|------10---(10)-----------|------------------------||--------------------------|---------12-(12)-----12-||-11-------------11---12---|-11\-9-9---------9------||--------------------------|------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------|
1. 2.
F#7 F#7
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +E E E E W|------------------------||------------------|||--------12-(12)---12---o||-12---------------|||-9--------------9----9--||------------------|||------------------------||------------------|||-----------------------o||------------------|||------------------------||------------------||
Bridge
Em Em7
Q. E Q Q +E E Q Q E E
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/ / / / / / / / / /
q q q q q q q q|-12---12---12--12--|-12---12--12--12---||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|
Aopen
Q. E Q Q +E E Q E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / /
q q q q q q q q|-12---12---12--12--|-12---12--12---12----||-------------------|---------------------||-------------------|---------------------||-------------------|---------------------||-------------------|---------------------||-------------------|---------------------|
Em Em7 Aopen
Q. E Q Q +E E Q Q E E Q. E Q Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / /
q q q q q q q q q q q q|-12---12---12--12--|-12---12--12--12---|-12---12---12--12--||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
D.S. al Coda
G F#m
+E E E E E E E E Q. E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
q q q q q q q q q q q q|-12---12---12---12---|-12---12---12---12---|-12--12---12---12----|||---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|||---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|||---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|||---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|||---------------------|---------------------|---------------------||
Outro
&
F#7 Bm
Gtr II Gtr II
E E E E E E E E Q E E +Q E E +E Q. E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr III Gtr I W Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q|------------------||-------2-(2)--5---|-(5)-2------------||-12---------------||-0----------------|----------5-------||------------------||------------------|--------------2---||------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------||------------------|------------------|
A
Q E E Q E E +Q E E E E E S S Q E E +E E Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q Q. E +Q Q|-------2-(2)--5---|-(5)-2----------------|-------2-(2)---5--||-0----------------|------------5---------|-0----------------||------------------|----------------2-----|------------------||------------------|----------------------|------------------||------------------|----------------------|------------------||------------------|----------------------|------------------|
G F#7 BmII
+E E Q E E E E Q E E +E E E E +E E Q Q E S S W
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
+E Q. Q Q Q. E +Q Q +E Q. Q Q W|-(5)-2-------------|-------2-(2)-------|-----2--------------|------*||-----------5-------|-0-------------5---|-(5)-------5--------|------*||---------------2---|-------------------|--------------2-----|-4----*||-------------------|-------------------|--------------------|------*||-------------------|-------------------|--------------------|------*||-------------------|-------------------|--------------------|------*|
Duration Legend
---------------
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff
Tablature Legend
----------------
h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
\n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
-----------
| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
