Yesterday Chords
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Difficulty: | intermediate |
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Tuning: | E A D G B E |
Key: | F |
Capo: | no capo |
Author Unregistered. 11 contributors total, last edit on Jan 15, 2024
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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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Yesterday – The Beatles
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167 comments

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

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

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.
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