Sweetest Thing

Words & Music:

U2

 

[basic chord riff for entire song is:]

C [2x]     G/C  F  C [2x]    G/C  F

 

My love she throws me like a rubber ball.  Oh, the sweetest thing!

But, she won't catch me or break my fall.  Oh, the sweetest thing!

Baby's got blue skies overhead but in this I'm a rain cloud.

You know she likes a dry kind of love.  Oh, the sweetest thing!

 

CHORUS:

Dm  Dm/C   G    Dm  Dm/C   G                         [to original riff]

I'm losing you, I'm losing you.  I love the sweetest thing!

 

I wanted to run she made me crawl.  Oh, the sweetest thing!

Eternal fire, she turned me to straw.  Oh, the sweetest thing!

You know I got black eyes, but they burn so brightly for her.

Mine is a blind kind of love.  Oh, the sweetest thing!

 

CHORUS:

 

BRIDGE:

               Gsus4/C  F/C  [vocal improv over Gsus4/C   F/C vamp]

Ain't love the sweetest thing?

 

Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl.  Oh, the sweetest thing!

You can sew it up but you still see the tear.  Oh, the sweetest thing!

Baby's got blue skies overhead and in this I'm a rain cloud.

You know we got a stormy kind of love.  Oh, the sweetest thing!

 

["doo-doo-doo-doo" and vocal improv over Gsus4/C   F/C vamp]

 

                 C

Oh, the sweetest thing!

 




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