Yesterday

Words & Music:

Paul McCartney

 

I've seen both simplified and "Beatles-true" arrangements of this in C, G & F.  This one sounds pretty true.  There's a quick one in G in the December 2006 issue of Acoustic Guitar.

 

C        Bm       E7                 Am       Am/G

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away,

F      G7                      C            C/E

Now it seems as though they're here to stay,

    Am  D        F     C

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

 

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be,

There's a shadow hanging over me,

Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

 

Bm7 E7  Am  G  F           G/D       G        C

Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say.

Bm7 E7   Am  G     F            G              C

I-- said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

 

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play,

Now I need a place to hide away,

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

 

Why she had to go, I don't know, she wouldn't say.

I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

 

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play,

Now I need a place to hide away,

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

 

Am       D        F    C

Mmmmm--, mmmmm--, mmmmmmmm.

 




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