Afire Love tab by Ed Sheeran

Tabs

Afire Love:

Capo: 3rd Fret

Chords used (relative to capo):

  B minorBm G+G E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD
e|-2--3--0--x--2--|
b|-3--3--0--2--3--|
g|-4--0--0--2--2--|
d|-4--x--2--2--0--|
a|-2--2--2--0--0--|
E MajorE|-2--3--0--x--x--|


Intro (strings):

Bm, G, Em, A augmentedA x3

Verse 1, start with a B minorBm before Ed starts singing.

              D MajorD
Things were all good yesterday,
               G+G
Then the devil took your memory,
               G+G
And if you fell to your death today,
               B minorBm
I hope heaven is your resting place,
                   D MajorD
I heard the doctors put your chest in pain,
                   G+G
But then that could’ve been the medicine,
                 A augmentedA
And now you’re lying in the bed again,
                     G+G
Either way I’ll cry with the rest of them,


Pre-chorus:

  D MajorD       B minorBm
My father told me son,
       G+G    D MajorD         B minorBm  G+G
It’s not his fault he doesn’t know your face,
      D MajorD      B minorBm G+G
And you’re not the only one,
          D MajorD    A augmentedA
Although my grandma used to say, he used to say,

e|-----------|
b|-----------|
g|--------2~-|
d|------2----|
a|-2h4~------|
E MajorE|-----------|


Chorus:

B minorBm           G+G              E minorEm
Darling hold me in your arms like you did last night,
     A augmentedA
And we’ll lie inside, a little while he wrote,
B minorBm           G+G              E minorEm
I could look into your eyes until the sun comes up,
           A augmentedA
And we’re wrapped in light, in life, in love,
B minorBm          G+G               E minorEm
Put your open lips on mine and slowly let them shut,
       A augmentedA
For they’re designed to be together, oh,
B minorBm           G+G                E minorEm
With your body next to mine our hearts will beat as one,
        A augmentedA
And we’re set alight, we’re afire love, oh,


Verse 2, start the verse off with a B minorBm again:

              D MajorD
Things were all good yesterday,
                 G+G
Then the devil took your breathe away,
              G+G
And now we’re left here in pain,
                    B minorBm
Black suit, black tie, standing in the rain,
             D MajorD
And now my family is one again,
                      G+G
Stapled together with the strangers and the friend,
                     A augmentedA
Came to my mind I should paint it with a pen,
             G+G
Six years I remember when,


Pre-Chorus:

  D MajorD       B minorBm
My father told me son,
       G+G    D MajorD         B minorBm  G+G
It’s not his fault he doesn’t know your face,
      D MajorD      B minorBm G+G
And you’re not the only one,
          D MajorD    A augmentedA
Although my grandma used to say, he used to say,


e|-----------|
b|-----------|
g|--------2~-|
d|------2----|
a|-2h4~------|
E MajorE|-----------|


Chorus:

B minorBm           G+G              E minorEm
Darling hold me in your arms like you did last night,
     A augmentedA
And we’ll lie inside, a little while he wrote,
B minorBm           G+G              E minorEm
I could look into your eyes until the sun comes up,
           A augmentedA
And we’re wrapped in light, in life, in love,
B minorBm          G+G               E minorEm
Put your open lips on mine and slowly let them shut,
       A augmentedA
For they’re designed to be together, oh,
B minorBm           G+G                E minorEm
With your body next to mine our hearts will beat as one,
        A augmentedA
And we’re set alight, we’re afire love, oh,


Just repeat the same chord progression for the rest of the song.


The acoustic riff that plays throughout the chorus’s and in tandem with the descending violin scale
at the end of the song (relative to capo):

e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
b|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
g|-----2---------2-------0-2-0-------2~---------2-----2---------2-------0-2-0-------2~--------2-|
d|-------4-----4---4~-/2-------2---2----------2---------4-----4---4~-/2-------2---2---------2---|
a|-2-------2-5-------------------0------0h2h4-----2-------2-5-------------------0------2h4~-----|
E MajorE|---2----------------------------------------------2-------------------------------------------|

Play around with the above, and then finish the song with:

e|--------------------------------------|
b|--------------------------------------|
g|-----2---------2-------0-2-0----------|
d|-------4-----4---4~-/2-------2---2----|
a|-2-------2-5-------------------0---4~-|
E MajorE|---2----------------------------------|

Just for fun, I’ve added the violin part as well, you’re gonna have to listen really closely
(not relative to capo):

e|-12-13-12----12----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
b|----------13----13-10-13-10----------------------------------------------------------------|
g|----------------------------12-14-12-10-12-10-------------------10-9-10-9----------10-9/12-|
d|----------------------------------------------12----10-12-10--------------------10---------|
a|--------------------------------------------------------------------------10-12------------|
E MajorE|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Other versions of Afire Love

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