When Love Comes To Town - B.B.King and U2

This is When Love Comes to Town. This is a song that was released by U2 with BB King. We can play this with one finger power chords, but this is a great opportunity to play the full E major chord and A major chord, and even the full original recording just uses those two chords. That main riff cycles through the verses, and it is AA with a mute and then E. And then Bono sings hey hey yeah yeah in a much better way than I have there, but it basically goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was a sailor, I was lost at sea, was under the waves before love rescued me, it kind of continues like that, which I will talk you through in a second, but let me just show you the chorus real quick, cause it's basically the same. Love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that train. When love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that wave. OK dokey, so it's just one A chord and one E chord. It couldn't be easier, but it's not easy to put any of this stuff together and it's certainly not easy to jam along to the original recording. So let's have a walkthrough from the start of the song just up to there, after that first chorus, so like the 1st 30 seconds, first minute of this song, let's have a look. We begin with just one strum. Of the E major chord, after that little drum roll in. Yeah yeah yeah, and then it's AAE. And after that, it just repeats A A E, got all the verse, and when we get to the chorus, we're gonna do a mute before the chorus. Let A ring out, and then let E ring out. Simple, simple, simple. Perhaps watch first and then join in on the second time we go through all this. Starting off in the E major chord in 1234. Yeah. Same as that again. I was a sailor, I was lost at sea. AAE was under the waves before love rescued me. AAE. I was a fighter. I could turn on a thread. Now I stand accused of the things I've said. That's an A chord, and you can play a like this, or just a one finger achord. Love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that train. When love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that plane. Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down, but I did what I did before love came to town. We don't need to play. The drummer's playing, Bono's playing, and then we go back to E. Just these big open chords and power chords, again, brown sounds set in Boscaana can't go wrong. Let's play it together, join in with me from the E major chord, here we go. 121234. Yay. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was a sailor. I was lost at sea, was under the waves before love rescued me. I was a fighter. I could turn on a thread. Now I stand accused of the things I've said, that's the chorus, this is a, when love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that train, when love comes to town. Catch that wave. Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down, but I did what I did before love came to town. Here we go, 34. Used to make love under a red sunset. I was making promises I was soon to forget. She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown, but I left her standing before love came to town chorus when love. Love comes to town, I'm going to catch that train. When love comes to town, I'm gonna catch that flame. Maybe I was wrong to never let you down, but I did what I did before love came to town riff, yeah. Yeah Yeah. And there you go. That's our first easy song, just with the chords, E major and A major. Remember you can, if you want, play all of those. With one finger, power chords, but this is really our opportunity to get used to full, major and minor chords. If you play this way, that's totally fine. A major like that. Some people even play it. Like this, if you come with those previous skills, use them, use what works for you, and when you've got that, I'll see you in the next lesson.