BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY       (The Verve)  (From "Urban Hymns" CD)
Transcribed by: Thomas Poynton <tom@poyntons.u-net.com>

This is a quite radical version for the acoustic guitar of this spellbinding
song, which I worked out as soon as I got the single last year.

            Dadd11
 E    E/A?     /A?   A
e -----0-----0-----0-----0-----
B -----0-----0-----3-----2-----
G -----1-----2-----2-----2-----
D -----2-----2-----4-----2-----
A -----2-----2-----0-----0-----
E -----0-----0-----X-----X-----


Repeat these 3 chords through the whole song in time to the string hook,
adding hammer-on`s on the G string on the "E" chord if you want-I think it
sounds quite good.


If recording, you could dub over the "A" chord, this chord:

e -----0-----
B -----10----
G -----9-----
D -----11----
A -----0-----
E -----x-----

The string parts: (Perhaps for slide guitar- I can`t play slide yet, so get
a group together and play it and tell me how it sounds)

D     --------------------------------------------------------------------
A     -------2-------------------5-------5---4-------4--------------------
E     ---4-------4---5---0---5-------5-----------5------------------------


e     --------------------------------------------------------------------
B     -------0-------------------3-------3---2-------2--------------------
G     ---1-------1---2-------2-------2-----------2------------------------
D     -------------------2------------------------------------------------
A     --------------------------------------------------------------------
E     --------------------------------------------------------------------


E     -----7----------------------10--------10---9--------9----------------
B     ---9---9---9---10-------10-------10------------10--------------------
G     --------------------9------------------------------------------------
D     ---------------------------------------------------------------------

For electric (or slide?), the cool riff as the song fades out:

G     ---12---12---12---9---12---9---12--- etc, etc (Just ad-lib it really)

The keyboard bit at the beginning:

G     ---1---2---1---2-----    Over and over again

And the cello sounding bit:

E     ---12---7---10---5---    Over and over again.

Enjoy!