Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

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Eleanor Rigby
as performed by the Beatles
Words and Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

4/4 Time
Standard Tuning
(String Quartet arranged for Guitar Chords)

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Optional voicings for verses 2 and 3 following the string arrangement

[Verse 2] seco
  Em          
  1 + 2 + 3 + 
e|------------
B|------------
G|0---0---0---
D|2---2---2---
A|2---2---2---
E|0---0---0---

nd part
  Em    Emadd9
4 +  1 + 2 + 3
--3-|------2--
--0-|------0--
0---|0---0----
2---|2---2---2
2---|2---2---2
0---|0---0---0

     Em      E
 + 4 +  1 + 2 
-----0-|------
-----0-|------
-------|------
---2---|2---2-
---2---|2---2-
---0---|0---0-

m7         C  
+ 3 + 4 +  1 +
--------0-|---
3-------1-|1--
0-------0-|0--
2-2---2---|2--
--2---2---|3--
--0---0---|---

              
 2 + 3 + 4 +  
-------------|
-1---1---1---|
-0---0---0---|
-2---2---2---|
-3---3---3---|
-------------|

        Em
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 
--------------
1---1---------
0---0---0---0-
2---2---2---2-
3---3---2---2-
--------0---0-

+
--|
--|
--|
--|
--|
--|

[Verse 3] firs
  Em          
  1 + 2 + 3 + 
e|------------
B|------------
G|0---0---0---
D|2---2---2---
A|2---2---2---
E|0---0---0---

t part
           Em 
4 +  1 + 2 + 3
----|---------
----|------0--
0---|0---0-0--
2---|2---2---2
2---|2---2---2
0---|0---0---0

   Esus4      
 + 4 +  1 + 2 
-------|------
-------|------
-----2-|------
---2-2-|2---2-
---2---|2---2-
---0---|0---0-

Em         Am 
+ 3 + 4 +  1 +
----------|---
--------1-|---
0-------2-|2--
2-2---2---|2--
--2---2---|0--
--0---0---|---

              
 2 + 3 + 4 +  
-------------|
-------------|
-2---2---2---|
-2---2---2---|
-0---0---0---|
-------------|

        Em
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 
--------------
--------------
2---2---0---0-
2---2---2---2-
0---0---2---2-
--------0---0-

+
--|
--|
--|
--|
--|
--|

[Coda]
  Em
  1 + 2 + 3 + 
e|3---0-------
B|0-------0---
G|0-----------
D|2-----------
A|2-----------
E|0-----------

4 +
----|
----|
2---|0
----|2
----|2
----|0



[Chorus 1]
             
Ah, look at al

              
l the lonely p

  
eople.
             
Ah, look at al

              
l the lonely p

  
eople.


[Verse 1]

Eleanor Rigby,

 picks up the 

rice in the ch

urch
              
Where a weddin

             
g has been, li

            
ves in a dream

.


Waits at the w

indow, wearing

 a face 
              
That she keeps

          
 in a jar by t

             
he door, who i

     
s it for?

[Chorus 2]
           
All the lonely

           
 people, where

       
 do they all c

      
ome from?
           
All the lonely

           
 people, where

       
 do they all b

   
elong?

[Verse 2]

Father McKenzi

e, writing the

 words of a se

rmon
              
That no one wi

             
ll hear, no on

        
e comes near.

            
Look at him wo

   [        
rking, darning

        
 his socks in 

    
the night
             
When there's n

 ]         
obody there. W

              
hat does he ca


re?

[Chorus 2]
           
All the lonely

           
 people, where

       
 do they all c

      
ome from?
           
All the lonely

           
 people, where

       
 do they all b

   
elong?

[Chorus 1]
             
Ah, look at al

              
l the lonely p

  
eople.
             
Ah, look at al

              
l the lonely p

  
eople.

[Verse 3]
            
Eleanor Rigby,

              
 died in the c

[           
hurch and was 

   ]
buried
[  ]        
Along with her

            
 name, nobody 

  
came.


Father McKenzi

e, wiping the 

dirt from his 

hands
              
As he walks fr

            
om the grave, 

             
no one was sav


ed.

[Chorus 2]
           
Ah,         lo

           
ok at all the 

              
lone - ly     

                    
peo - ple.
All the lone  -  ly peo-ple,         where do        they all come from?

           
Ah,         lo

           
ok at all the 

              
lone - ly     

       
peo - ple.    

        |   
          (= C

| 
oda)
All the lone  -  ly peo-ple,         where do        they all belong?