Song:     This Boy
Artists:  The Beatles
Album:    Past Masters, 2009
URL:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_vqE2hBWkg;
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Boy;
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Masters
Time:     12|8
Method:   Gentle accelerated strumming with rests
Tuning:   Standard

Chords:   EADGBe
         XX0232
     XX0230
        X03320
        022000
        X02020
      
N.C.      No C


hord
         X02220
     XX0233
        XX0210
         355433
       244322
        XX0212



[INTRO]
|  ||       (Arpeggiated Chords)
|      |  ||(Strummed Chords)


[VERSE 1]
         
That boy____to

           
ok my love awa

  
y____,
           
Though he'll r

            
egret it somed

   
ay ____.
      
But this boy__

         
__wants you ba

           
ck again.____


[VERSE 2]
         
That boy____is

           
n't good for y

      
ou____,
              
Though he may 

          
want you too__


__.
       
This boy______

.        
__wants you ba

       
ck again____.


[CHORUS]
             
Oh, and this b

              
oy____would be

  
 happy____,(Ah

-h-h-h)
            
Just to love__

             
you, but oh my

       
-hi-hi-hi-a!(A

h-h-h-h)
             
That boy____wo

       
n't be happy,(

Ah-h-h-h)
            
Till he's seen

         
 you cry____.(

Ah-h-h-h)


[VERSE 3]
         
This boy____wo

            
uldn't mind th

          
e pain____,
           
Would always f

           
eel the same__


__.
         
If this boy ge

             
ts you back ag

        
ain____.


[CODA]
      
This boy,
       
This boy.
(     
(This boy.)   

)
 [Fade Out]

[End]


NOTES:
1.  “…They recorded fifteen takes of "This Boy", followed by two overdubs. The song was recorded with 
a rounded ending, although it was faded out during a mixing session on 21 October.  Two takes were 
joined together to make the final master, with the edit between the middle eight and final verse (1:28). …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Boy
2.  “…It was very co-written. We wanted to do a close-harmony thing, we liked harmonies and we were 
quite good at them. We used to do a close-harmony version of the Teddy Bears' To Know Her Is To Love Her, 
which was good for the versatility in the band. We weren't all rock 'n' roll, we could change the pace, 
which was always nice after you'd played for three hours. We wrote it in two-part harmony and then put 
the third part in for George to sing; we'd never actually tried to write something like that. 
Nice middle, John sang that great, then we'd go back into the close-harmony thing. …” - Paul McCartney, 
Many Years From Now, Barry Miles  http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/this-boy/