Mysterious Ways Bass

U2 - Mysterious ways (Popmart! live version)
 
Graham Maskill - maskill@gem99.fsnet.co.uk
(Sorry-I made a cock-up in the last transcription with Verse 1, not with the tab but with the typing)
 
If you're playing along to the tape/video of popmart! don't forget to tune down 1/2 a step.
 
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Verse 2 as verse 1, bass starts after "talk about the things you can't explain."
Then chorus as before.
After "lift up my days, light up my nights" & during following guitar break, play this:
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Back into main riff & play out, ending on high B, sliding up an octave.
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