Yesterday Chords

by The Beatles
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Difficulty: intermediate
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: F
Capo: no capo
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11 contributors total, last edit on Jan 15, 2024
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Chords

F
Em7
A7
Dm
Dm/C
Bb
C7
F/E
G7
Gm
C
G/F

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Chords in the original key of F. McCartney plays it in G but uses
a guitar that is tuned down one full step (D-G-C-F-A-d), that's
why the song sounds in the key of F. Transposed +2 to G (the way
McCartney played it in the studio and plays it live until today)
the song is much easier to play.
 
[Intro]
F  F
 
[Verse 1]
F         Em7     A7                 Dm     Dm/C
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Bb       C7                     F            F/E Dm  G7       Bb F F
 Now it looks as though they're here to stay, oh I believe in yesterday
 
[Verse 2]
F        Em7      A7             Dm         Dm/C
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
Bb         C7             F        F/E Dm   G7       Bb F F
 There's a shadow hanging over me, oh yesterday came suddenly
 
[Chorus]
Em7 A7   Dm  Dm/C Bb         Gm        C        F
Why she  had to   go I don't know, she wouldn't say
Em7 A7   Dm  Dm/C  Bb           Gm       C     F
I   said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
 
[Verse 3]
F         Em7       A7           Dm          Dm/C
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Bb     C7              F          F/E Dm  G7       Bb F F
 Now I need a place to hide away, oh  I believe in yesterday
 
[Chorus]
Em7 A7   Dm  Dm/C Bb           Gm       C       F
 Why she  had to   go I don't know, she wouldn't say
Em7 A7   Dm  Dm/C  Bb           Gm       C     F
I   said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
 
[Verse]
F        Em7        A7           Dm           Dm/C
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Bb     C7              F          F/E Dm  G7       Bb F F
 Now I need a place to hide away, oh  I believe in yesterday
 
[Outro]
F     G/F   Bb F  F
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167 comments
Fender_Rocks
seeing as how this is just about 95% right, it sould be rated higher. Ad secondly, you dont start on G with this song, learn how to play buddy cause you are wrong. Anyways, this is the correct way to play it, nice job!
+82
dljohnslmhc
all these comments are making me crazy. I play this the way that makes me happy playing it. Period. I don't need a lesson in music theory or correctness. I am making this song my own, so there....
+26
di4gram
whoever said this song starts on G is out of their mind paul tuned his guitar down, you can hear him reading the chords off to George in the anthology. his G is George's F, which is what the first chord.
+12