Learn to play Van Diemen’s Land, U2 by U2 on your Diatonic
Van Diemen’s Land, U2 Harmonica Tab
I posted two versions. The song is in G major, 6 flats. The first
version is right off the page without the flats, but in the second I
tried to lower it an octave by ear. Mostly right except for the -2b.
Can’t quite get that one.
6 -6 -7 -6 6 5 -4
Hold me now, oh hold me now
6 -6 -6-7 -6 -6 -7-6
’til this hour has gone around
-6 -6 -6-7 -7 -7 -7 -8 -88
And I’m gone on the rising tide
6 -6 -7 -6 6 -6 6
For to face Van Diemen’s land
It’s a bitter pill I swallow here
To be rent from one so dear
We fought for justice and not for gain
But the magistrate sent me away
Now kings will rule and the poor will toil
And tear their hands as they tear the soil
But a day will come in this dawning age
When an honest man sees an honest wage
Hold me now, oh hold me now
’til this hour has gone around
And I’m gone on the rising tide
For to face Van Diemen’s land
Version two
4 -4 5 -4 4 -2b 3
Hold me now, oh hold me now
4 -4 -4 5 -4 -4 5 -4
’til this hour has gone around
-4 -4 -4 5 5 5 5-5 6-6
And I’m gone on the rising tide
4 -4 5 -4 4 -4 4
For to face Van Diemen’s land
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