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“When Love Comes to Town” by U2 & B.B. King – Chords, Tabs, and How to Play

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“When Love Comes to Town”
U2 & B.B. King

Intro:
E             A       E
Yeah… Yeah-yeah.
Yeah… Yeah-yeah.

E                              A          E
I was a sailor; I was lost at sea.
E                                                          A           E
I was under the waves before love rescued me.
E                                     A             E
I was a fighter; I could turn on a thread,
E
Now I stand accused of the things I’ve said.

CHORUS:
A
When love comes to town, I’m gonna jump that train.
A          E                                                   A              E
When love comes to town, I’m gonna catch that flame.
E                                            A          E
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down,
E
But I did what I did before love came to town.

Used to make love under a red sunset.
I was making promises I was soon to forget.
She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown,
But I left her standing before love came to town.

I ran into a juke-joint when I heard a guitar scream.
The notes were turning blue, I was dazed and in a dream.
As the music played, I saw my life turn around…
That was the day before love came to town.

CHORUS (repeat)

I was there when they crucified my Lord.
I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword.
I threw the dice when they pierced his side,
But I’ve seen love conquer the great divide.

CHORUS

End:
E             A       E
Yeah… Yeah-yeah.
Yeah… Yeah-yeah.

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“Out Of Our Heads” by Sheryl Crow – Chords, Tabs, and How to Play

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“Out Of Our Heads”
Sheryl Crow

(Capo 1)

Am                               F
If you feel you wanna fight me,
C                                             G
There’s a chain around your mind.
When something is holding you tightly,
What is real is so hard to find.

Losing babies to genocide,
Oh, where’s the meaning in that plight.
Can’t you see that we’ve really bought into
Every word they proclaimed and every lie, oh…

CHORUS 1:
Am              C           C              F            F              C
If we could only get out of our heads, out of our heads,
G
And into our hearts…
If we could only get out of our heads, out of our heads,
And into our hearts…

Someone’s feeding on your anger.
Someone’s been whispering in your ear.
You’ve seen his face before;
You’ve been played before.
These aren’t the words you need to hear.

Through the dawn of darkness blindly,
You have blood upon your hands.
All the world will treat you kindly,
But only the heart will understand, oh understand…

CHORUS 2:
If we could only get out of our heads, out of our heads,
And into our hearts….
Children of Abraham, lay down your fears, swallow your
tears, and look to your heart.

(repeat CHORUS 2)

Every man is his own prophet,
Oh, every prophet just a man.
I say, all the women stand up, say yes to themselves;
Teach your children best you can.

Let every man bow to the best in himself;
We’re not killing any more.
We’re the wisest ones, everybody listen,
‘Cause you can’t fight this feeling any more, oh, any more…

CHORUS 2 (repeat)

End on:

Am
Ohhhh….

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“People Are Strange” (The Doors) Cover Music Video

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By Jim Fusco:

Welcome, welcome to another edition of Jim Fusco Tuesday!  If you’re a fan, you’re in for a treat this week!

Tonight, I finally put an end to a great shame here on the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover songs music video blog.  We pride ourselves on having the best bands of all time- both in music quality and in popularity.  Now, for my tastes, the Doors are a bit too avant-garde at times, but as far as a cult following and popularity go, it’s an atrocity that it’s taken us this long to do a Doors song!  So, it’s Jim Fusco to the rescuse again tonight with “People Are Strange”.

“People Are Strange” (which I always thought was titled “When You’re Strange”…) for me is a kind of a midway point between such pop/rock style songs (“Hello, I Love You” and “Touch Me” – both GREAT songs) and the “deeper” style of songs like “Riders on the Storm”.  Plus, I think it translated really well into acosutic guitar, so it’s a perfect addition to the music video blog and a nice way to start off our Doors category here on the site.

I read an article on Yahoo today about the most hated and loved bands.  One of the ones they mentioned was the Doors because of Jim Morrison being kind of a martyr.  I mean, everyone loved the Beatles and they broke up well before John died.  So, they don’t really get a sympathy vote.  But, Morrison and Hendrix were rockers that died well before their time and during the height of their popularity.  So, their star continues to rise after they pass away because you can’t do wrong when you’re not around, well, to do more wrong!

I would have to agree that the Doors are a bit overrated, but if you take them at their best, which I’m assuming are their singles, (unless someone wants to correct me by posting a commment) then you’ve got a group with a classic rock’n’roll lead singer, a world-class keyboard player in Ray Manzereck, and some truly radio-worthy singles.  That ranks pretty high in my book.

I hope you enjoy tonight’s Laptop Session acoustic cover song music video.  I have so much to say about the progress of my new album, but again, that’ll wait until tomorrow night’s post.  Then, I’ll leave the next week to either Chris or Jeff before I come at you again with another original song music video!  We have so many great plans to get new viewers to the blog (a big shoutout to Chris’ efforts- see, I don’t only criticize, I praise!), so if this is your first time here, we welcome you and hope you’ll come back each day for another great cover song or original acoustic music video!  See you tomorrow.

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“Out of Our Heads” (Sheryl Crow Cover)

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For Sheryl Crow Chords and Lyrics, CLICK HERE!

By Jeff Copperthite:

Assistant Editor/site curator note: This post was originally from February 19, 2009.  The post doesn’t mention too many “historically inaccurate” information, but still always good to see where things were.  Enjoy this latest blast from the past!

Welcome to Thumpin’ Thursday for the first time in a couple of weeks.  Here’s a couple of updates for you.  My health is much better now after a shaky four days from Wednesday to Sunday last week.  The vacation is helping tremendously.  Also, i’ve hit 90K views, and I should hit the 6 digit mark in the near near future!

Tonight I have a brand new cover song for you.  It’s a song that I have yet to see anybody cover, or post the chords too.  The song is by Sheryl Crow, and it’s a single off her album “Detours”.  The song “Out of Our Heads” shares the title of a Rolling Stones’ album.  However, the song is drastically different.  It’s also very catchy, and unfortunately it’s hard to capture the catchiness in an acoustic cover.

The hardest part for me is the fact I had to figure this song out on my own.  I’ve never been very good at transcribing guitar chords by ear.  I used to make MIDI files for a couple of Final Fantasy games in my teenage years, and I got good at picking out individual instruments and tracking those for the MIDI.  I also could figure out bass riffs, but i’d use those bass riffs to figure out guitar parts, which worked for a fair amount of the time.

So what you’re watching is my transcription of the song.  I figured out it was a capo’d song from the music video that Sheryl Crow made.  However, the sound I picked up was from a first fretted capo, not a sixth like in the video.  Sure, it worked on sixth when I was messing around with it, but it sounded more accurate on 1st.

Here are the chords I transcribed, relative to 1st fret capo.

Verse: Am, F, C, G

Chorus: Am, C, F, C, G

If you have suggestions or changes, please let me know about them.  I hope, regardless, you enjoy tonight’s video!

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