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U2-Angel of Harlem - BPM - 107

[Intro BPM 103 - No drums start]     
[C]    [F]       x 4 then drums in
[C]    [F]       x 4

[Verse]                        
[C] It was a cold and wet De [F] cember day
[C] When we touched the ground at [F] JFK
[C] Snow was melting [F] on the ground
[C] On BLS I  [F] heard the sound,   of an [C] An gel [F]
[C] [F]
[C] New York, like a [F]  Christmas tree
[C] Tonight this city [F]  belongs to me, [C] An gel [F] 
[C] [F] (drum fill)

[Chorus]
[F] Soul love...[G] this love won't let me [F] go     
So long... [G] angel of [C]  Harlem [F]

[C] [F] x 4   

[Verse]            
[C] Birdland on fifty-three [F]
[C] The street sounds like a  [F] symphony
[C] We got John Coltrane and  [F] a love supreme
[C] Miles says she's got to [F]  be an [C] angel [F]
[C] [F]  
[C] Lady Day got [F] diamond eyes
[C] She sees the truth behind the [F] lies,   [C]  Angel [F]
[C] [F] (drum fill)

[Chorus]
[F] Soul love...[G] this love won't let me [F] go     
So long... [G] angel of [C]  Harlem [F]

[Break] (change to normal chords) 
[Am] Oooh, oooh [G]ooh  ooo [F] oooh, She says its
[Am] heart [G] eart...heart and  [F] soul... 
(Just bass drum - muted F downstrokes - increase in volume)             
Yeah yeah...
[C] [F] x 4   
 
[Verse]           
[C] Blue light on the avenue [F] 
[C] God knows they got to [F] you
[C] An empty glass, the [F] lady sings
[C] Eyes swollen like a [F] bee sting
[C] Blinded you lost  [F] your way
[C] Through the side streets and the [F] alleyway
[C] Like a star exploding [F] in the night
[C] Falling to the city in [F] broad daylight

[Break]
[F] Angel in Devil's shoes        
[G] Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an a [F] angel 
[F] Yeah .......... yeah [G] Angel of Harlem

[C] [F] x 4 

[Outro]
[C] Angel...[F]........
[C] [F] Angel of 
[C] Harlem [F]
(repeat a few times then end on C)

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Average White Band-Pick Up The Pieces - BPM - 107

Drums

Intro No drums - 4
Riff A x 14 bars - sax comes in straightaway unlike later
3rd sax line varies, no sax last one
Riff A x 14 bars

Fill into
Riff B x 4 (5 bars) - drums stop

Riff A x 14 sax comes in after 2 bars
Riff B x 4 (5 bars - hold note over spoken)

Spoken pick up x 4 starts straight on that 5th bar

Sax solo x 12
Key change x 4

Riff A x 4 sax straight in
Riff B x 9

Spoken pick up x 4 with drum fills

Riff A x 1 to end

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