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Yesterday by The Beatles - Guitar Chords

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            Song: Yesterday
Artist: The Beatles
Composer: Paul McCartney (Credited to Lennon & McCartney)
Album: Help
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar-)  20th June 2019

To hear the track, copy and paste this link:
--.-/watch?ds49apRTXUZDBBYo

The crucial thing to achieve the way Paul McCartney played
this is this dropped tuning... 

DROPPED TUNING: D-G-C-F-A-D 
De-tune all strings a whole tone down below standard tuning.
Using a chromatic tuner makes this a bit easier

NOTE: The song is played in G on guitar, but, with the full
tone dropped tuning, the song will sound in the key of F.
(For keyboard and bass players etc, set the transpose
function to +2 to view the chords in the key of F.)

Please IGNORE ANY  CHORD BOXES the website might 
automatically suggest and use the typed shapes shown below:

G     = 320033     D7   = xx0212     Emadd9/B = x22002 
F#m   = 244222     G/F# = 2x0033     Em/B     = x22000
B7    = x21202     Em7  = 022030     Am6      = x02212
Em    = xx2000     A7   = x02020     D7       = xx0212
Em7/D = xx0000     F#m7 = 242222     G5       = xxx033
C     = 332010     C *  = x32013     A7 *     = xx2023

N.C. = No chords   ^ = Emphasise the beats

Emphasise the bass note of each chord, particularly the 
progressions in Verses 3 and 5. In the live video though he
plays the C with a bottom G but doesn't appear to emphasise
that particular note, personally I would still emphasise the 
C on the 5th string.

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[Intro]
   G
|  /  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  /  |

[Verse 1]
G         F#m        B7                 Em        Em7/D  C
Yesterday, ...all my troubles seemed so far away,
       D                       G
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
G/F# Em7     A7       C     G     G    N.C.
Oh,  I  be - lieve in yes - ter - day
                       ^     ^     ^
[Verse 2]
G         F#m           B7             Em          Em7/D  C
Suddenly,    ...I'm not half the man I used to be,
          D              G  
There's a shadow hanging over me,
G/F#  Em7      A7       C     G     G
Oh,   yester - day came sud - den - ly
                         ^     ^     ^
[Verse 3]
F#m    B7     Em  D  C *
Why ...she ...had to go,
Emadd9/B Em/B  Am6       D7       G
I     ...don't know, she wouldn't say,
F#m   B7      Em     D     C *
I  ...said ...some - thing wrong,
Emadd9/B Em/B Am6      D7       G     N.C.
Now      I    long for yester - day---------

[Verse 4]
G          F#m           B7           Em           Em7/D  C
Yesterday,   ...love was such an easy game to play,
    D7                 G
Now I  need a place to hide away,
G/F#  Em7    A7       C     G     G
Oh,   I be - lieve in yes - ter - day
                       ^     ^     ^
[Verse 5]
F#m    B7     Em  D  C *
Why ...she ...had to go,
Emadd9/B Em/B  Am6       D7       G
I     ...don't know, she wouldn't say,
F#m   B7      Em     D     C *
I  ...said ...some - thing wrong,
Emadd9/B Em/B Am6      D7       G      N.C.
Now      I    long for yester - day---------

[Verse 6]
G          F#m           B7           Em           Em7/D  C
Yesterday,   ...love was such an easy game to play,
       D7              G
Now I  need a place to hide away,
G/F#  Em7    A7       C     G     G
Oh,   I be - lieve in yes - ter - day
                       ^     ^     ^
[Coda]
G5       A7 *     C   G    G
Mm, mm!  Mm, mm!  Mm, mm - mm!
                  ^    ^   ^ 
        

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