Beautiful Day
Artist: U2
Album: All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Download the Score: PDF
Notes
This arrangement doesn’t include the solo part or lyrics (see below).
I also haven’t set the second bridge for this song, the part that starts “See the world in green and blue…” This is because it’s (a) kind of a long song (b) the second bridge is kind of ambient and takes the momentum out of the song.
Lyrics
The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground
But there’s no room, no space to rent in this town
You’re out of luck and the reason that you had to care,
The traffic is stuck and you’re not moving anywhere.
You thought you’d found a friend to take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace.
It’s a beautiful day, the sky falls
And you feel like it’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away.
You’re on the road but you’ve got no destination
You’re in the mud, in the maze of her imagination
You love this town even if it doesn’t ring true
You’ve been all over and it’s been all over you
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away.
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away.
Touch me, take me to that other place
Teach me, I know I’m not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out.
It was a beautiful day
A beautiful day
Don’t let it get away.
Touch me, take me to that other place
Reach me, I know I’m not a hopeless case
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
What you don’t know you can feel it somehow
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
You don’t need it now, you don’t need it now
Beautiful day
Rock and Roll
Artist: Velvet Underground
Album: Loaded
Download the Score: PDF or Melody Assistant
The Music: MP3 (right-click to save)
Notes
This arrangement doesn’t include the solo part or lyrics (see below).
Lyrics
Jenny said when she was just five years old
You know there’s nothing happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothing goin’ down at all
Then one fine mornin’ she puts on a New York station
She couldn’t believe what she heard at all
She started dancin’ to that fine fine music
You know her life was saved by Rock ‘n’ Roll
Despite all the amputations
You could just dance to a rock ‘n’ roll station
And it was all right.
Jenny said when she was just five years old
My parents are gonna be the death of us all
Two TV sets and two Cadillac cars–
Ain’t gonna help us at all
Then one fine mornin’ she puts on a New York station
She don’t believe what she heard at all
She started dancin’ to that fine fine music
You know her life was saved by Rock ‘n’ Roll
Despite all the computations
You could just dance to a rock ‘n ‘ roll station
And it was alright.
(repeat 1st verse and vamp on “it was alright”)