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Yesterday

by The Beatles
Tab intermediate Key: C Tuning: E A D G B E
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Title: Yesterday
Artist: The Beatles
Author and Copyright: MississippiHans (arr.+tab.)
Capo: 2, optionally
Tempo: Q=90
Play bass quarters with your right-hand thumb and insert melody/harmony notes.
The chord names above the tab lines indicate the left-hand position. Eights are marked '+', sixteenths 's'.
Play the 6th string 1st fret in the Dm chord with your left-hand thumb (thumb-fretting).
Play the Am/Dm7/C chords on the higher frets with bar, full or strings 1-3 depending on the bass note.
[Intro]
   C
E|-----0---0---0-------0---0---0---|-----0---0---0-------0---0---0---|
B|-----1---1---1-------1---1---1---|-----1---1---1-------1---1---1---|
G|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|---------2---------------2-------|---------2---------------2-------|
A|-3---------------3---------------|-3---------------3---------------|
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
[Verse] 
   C  +     +     +     +   Bm7 +     +  E7 +     +    Am + s    +     +     +    F  +     +  G  +     +   
E|-------------------------|-------0-h2--4-/5--7-/8--|-7---p5-5-----------------|-1----/5--5--3-p1--0-----|
B|-3-p1--1-----------------|-------------------------|-----------5-----------5--|-1--------------------3--|
G|----------0-----0-----0--|----2--------------------|----5------------5--------|----2--------------------|
D|-------2-----------2-----|-------0-----------------|--------7-----------7-----|-------0-----------0-----|
A|-3-----------3-----------|-2-----------------0-----|-0------------0-----------|-3-----------------------|
E|-------------------------|-------------0-----------|--------------------------|-------------3-----------|
   Yesterday                 all my troubles seemed so far away,                Now it looks as though they're
   Suddenly                  I'm not half the man I    used to be.                    There's a shadow hanging
   Yesterday                 love was such an easy     game to play.                  Now I need a place to 
   F  +  C  +     +     +    Am +     +  Dm +     +    F  +  C  +     +     +   
E|-1-----0--0--------------|-------0-----------------|-------0--0--------------|
B|-1-----1--1--------3-----|-1-----------3-----------|-1-----1--1--------------|
G|----2-----------0-----0--|----2-----2--------2-----|-2--------------0-----0--|
D|-------2-----------2-----|-------2--------0-----0--|-------2-----------2-----|
A|-3-----------3-----------|-0-----------------0-----|-------------3-----------|
E|-------------------------|-------------1-----------|-1-----------------------|
   here to stay      oh      I     believe     in      yesterday.
   over    me        oh      yesterday         came    suddenly.
   hide  away        oh      I     believe     in      yesterday.   
[Chorus]
  Bm7 +     +  E7 +     +    Am +     +     +     +   Dm7 +     +     +     +    C  +     +     +     +
E|-0-----------0-----------|-5-----7----/8-----7-p5--|-7--------5--------5-----|-0-----------------------|
B|-3-----------3-----------|-5-----------------------|----6--------8-----------|-------------------------|
G|----2-----2-----1-----1--|----5-----5-----5--------|----------------5-----5--|----0-----0-----0-----0--|
D|-------0-----------2-----|-------7-----------7-----|-------7-----------7-----|-------------0-----------|
A|-2-----------2-----------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-3-----2-----------3-----|
E|-------------------------|-5-----------5-----------|-5-----------5-----------|-------------------------|
   Why         she           had   to    go    I don't know     she wouldn't     say.
  Bm7  +    +  E7 +     +    Am +     +     +     +   Dm7 +     +     +     +    C  +     +         
E|-0-----------0-----------|-5-----7----/8-----7-p5--|-7-------p5--------7-----|-8---------------------|
B|-3-----------3-----------|-5-----------------------|----6--------8-----------|-------8---------------|
G|----2-----2-----1-----1--|----5-----5-----5--------|----------------5-----5--|----9-----9--10----9---|
D|-------0-----------2-----|-------7-----------7-----|-------7-----------7-----|-------10----------10--|
A|-2-----------2-----------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-----------------------|
E|-------------------------|-5-----------5-----------|-5-----------5-----------|-8-----------8---------|
   I           said          something   wrong now I   long     for yester-      day.                 
[Outro]  slow
   Am +     +  Dm +     +    F  +  C  +     +     +   
E|-------0-----------------|-------0--0--------------|
B|-1-----------3-----------|-1-----1--1--------------|
G|----2-----2--------2-----|-2-----------------------|
D|-------2--------0-----0--|-------2-----------------|
A|-0-----------------0-----|-------------3-----------|
E|-------------1-----------|-1-----------------------|
   Mm-   mm-   mm-   mm,     yesterday.
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| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
| / Slide up
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