Yesterday - PAUL MCCARTNEY - LIVE (1976) YESTERDAY (co-written with John Lennon) (c) 1965 Northern Songs Ltd. Chords used: EADGBE G: 300033 F#m: 244222 B7: x21202 Em: 022000 Em7/D: 020000 C: x32010 D7: xx0212 G/F#: 200033 Em7: 020030 A7: x02020 B7sus4:x21200 D: xx0232 Em/B: 022002 Am6: x02212 INTRO: D:-----3--3--3------3--3--3----- A:-----3--3--3------3--3--3----- F:-----0--0--0------0--0--0----- C:------------------------------ G:------------------------------ D:--3------------3-------------- [repeat once] G F#m B7 Em Em7/D Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away C D7 G Now it looks as though they're here to stay G/F# Em7 A7 C G 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 B7sus4 B7 Em D C Em/B Am6 D7 G [RIFF] Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say B7sus4 B7 Em D C Em/B Am6 D7 G I said something wrong now I long for yesterday Em D C Em/B Am6 ....had to go I don't know RIFF: D:---0---2--3--2-0------2------ A:----------------------1------ F:----------------------2------ C:---2---0--3--2-2------------- G:----------------------0------ D:----------------------------- 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 G A7 C G Hmm mmm mmm mm mm mmm mmmm NOTE: "I had a piano at my bedside and I must have dreamt it because I tumbled out of bed and put my hands on the piano keys and I had a tune in my head. It was just all there, a complete song. It came too easy. I couldn't believe it. I didn't believe that I had written it. I thought that maybe I had heard it somewhere before, it was some other tune. I went around for weeks playing the chords of the song for people, asking them, Is this like something? I think I've written it, and people would say, No, it's not like anything else, but it's good." (Paul McCartney, 1997)