Yesterday Chords & Tabs

by The Beatles

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Suggested Pattern:
BPM: 97
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 101, 3, 101, 1, 101, 3, 101]
Alternative (thumb + fingers):
BPM: 97
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 101, 101, 101, 1, 101, 101, 101]
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]
Em7A7   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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