ORDER: I V1 C1 V2 C1 B C2 E 

INTO: C  G/F  Am  F  
 
VERSE 1: 
C          G/F    Am                       F  
Take these shoes… Click clacking down some dead end street 
C          G/F                  Am  F     
Take these shoes… And make them fit 
C         G/F    Am                    F  
Take this shirt… Polyester white trash made in nowhere 
C         G/F                Am     F  
Take this shirt… And make it clean, clean 
C          G/F  Am               F  
Take this soul… Stranded in some skin and bones 
C          G/F              Am   F  
Take this soul… And make it sing 


CHORUS 1: 
C   G   Am  F
Yahweh, Yahweh 
C      G             Am       F
Always pain before a child is born 
C   G   Am  F
Yahweh, Yahweh 
C         G               C
Still I'm waiting for the dawn


VERSE 2: 
C          G/F    Am                 F  
Take these hands… Teach them what to carry 
C          G/F                 Am    F  
Take these hands… Don't make a fist 
C         G/F    Am          F  
Take this mouth… So quick to criticize 
C         G/F              Am   F  
Take this mouth… Give it a kiss 

BRIDGE:
… Am       Em      F
… dawn 
                      Am   Em     F                G
Still waiting for the dawn,   the sun is coming up 
    C                       Em
The sun is coming up on the ocean 
     Am                         F
This love is like a drop in the ocean
     Am                         F      Dsus
This love is like a drop in the ocean 


CHORUS 2:
C   G   Am  F
Yahweh, Yahweh 
C      G             Am       F
Always pain before a child is born 
C   G   Am      F
Yahweh, tell me now 
C       G               C
Why the dark before the dawn? 
C   G   Am  F
Oou-oou-oou-oou-oo
C   G   Am  F
Oou-oou-oou-oou-oo


ENDING: 
C         G/F     Am                     F  
Take this city… A city should be shining on a hill 
C         G/F         Am           F  
Take this city… If it be your will 
C               G/F  Am         F  
What no man can own… no man can take 
C         F       C          F   
Take this heart… Take this heart 
C          F                 C
Take this heart… And make it break



© U2 2004
From the Album “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb”