Yesterday - The Beatles

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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--
B|-----1---1--
G|------------
D|---------2--
A|-3----------
E|------------

-0-------0---0
-1-------1---1
--------------
-------------2
-----3--------
--------------

---0---|-----0
---1---|-----1
-------|------
-------|------
-------|-3----
-------|------

---0---0------
---1---1------
--------------
---2----------
-----------3--
--------------

-0---0---0---|
-1---1---1---|
-------------|
-----2-------|
-------------|
-------------|

[Verse] 
   C  +     + 
E|------------
B|-3-p1--1----
G|----------0-
D|-------2----
A|-3----------
E|------------
   Yesterday  
   Suddenly   
   Yesterday  

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

Bm7 +     +  E
-------0-h2--4
--------------
----2---------
-------0------
-2------------
-------------0
 all my troubl
 I'm not half 
 love was such

7 +     +    A
-/5--7-/8--|-7
-----------|--
-----------|--
-----------|--
-----0-----|-0
-----------|--
es seemed so f
the man I    u
 an easy     g

m + s    +    
---p5-5-------
---------5----
--5-----------
------7-------
------------0-
--------------
ar away,      
sed to be.    
ame to play.  

 +     +    F 
----------|-1-
-------5--|-1-
-5--------|---
----7-----|---
----------|-3-
----------|---
          Now 
              
              

 +     +  G  +
---/5--5--3-p1
--------------
-2------------
----0---------
--------------
----------3---
it looks as th
  There's a sh
  Now I need a

     +   
--0-----|
-----3--|
--------|
--0-----|
--------|
--------|
ough they're
adow hanging
 place to 

   F  +  C  + 
E|-1-----0--0-
B|-1-----1--1-
G|----2-------
D|-------2----
A|-3----------
E|------------
   here to sta
   over    me 
   hide  away 

    +     +   
-------------|
-------3-----|
----0-----0--|
-------2-----|
-3-----------|
-------------|
y      oh     
       oh     
       oh     

 Am +     +  D
-------0------
-1-----------3
----2-----2---
-------2------
-0------------
-------------1
 I     believe
 yesterday    
 I     believe

m +     +    F
-----------|--
-----------|-1
-----2-----|-2
--0-----0--|--
-----0-----|--
-----------|-1
     in      y
     came    s
     in      y

  +  C  +     +     +   
-----0--0--------------|
-----1--1--------------|
--------------0-----0--|
-----2-----------2-----|
-----------3-----------|
-----------------------|
esterday.
uddenly.
esterday.   

[Chorus]
  Bm7 +     + 
E|-0----------
B|-3----------
G|----2-----2-
D|-------0----
A|-2----------
E|------------
   Why        

 E7 +     +   
-0-----------|
-3-----------|
----1-----1--|
-------2-----|
-2-----------|
-------------|
 she          

 Am +     +   
-5-----7----/8
-5------------
----5-----5---
-------7------
--------------
-5-----------5
 had   to    g

  +     +   Dm
-----7-p5--|-7
-----------|--
--5--------|--
-----7-----|--
-----------|--
-----------|-5
o    I don't k

7 +     +     
--------5-----
--6--------8--
--------------
-----7--------
--------------
-----------5--
now     she wo

+     +    C  
---5-----|-0--
---------|----
5-----5--|----
---7-----|----
---------|-3--
---------|----
uldn't     say

+     +     +     +
---------------------|
---------------------|
0-----0-----0-----0--|
---------0-----------|
---2-----------3-----|
---------------------|
.

  Bm7  +    + 
E|-0----------
B|-3----------
G|----2-----2-
D|-------0----
A|-2----------
E|------------
   I          

 E7 +     +   
-0-----------|
-3-----------|
----1-----1--|
-------2-----|
-2-----------|
-------------|
 said         

 Am +     +   
-5-----7----/8
-5------------
----5-----5---
-------7------
--------------
-5-----------5
 something   w

  +     +   Dm
-----7-p5--|-7
-----------|--
--5--------|--
-----7-----|--
-----------|--
-----------|-5
rong now I   l

7 +     +     
-------p5-----
--6--------8--
--------------
-----7--------
--------------
-----------5--
ong     for ye

+     +    C  
---7-----|-8--
---------|----
5-----5--|----
---7-----|----
---------|----
---------|-8--
ster-      day

+     +       
--------------
---8----------
9-----9--10---
---10---------
--------------
---------8----
.             

  
-----|
-----|
-9---|
-10--|
-----|
-----|
    
                                                                                                      
[Outro]  slow
   Am +     + 
E|-------0----
B|-1----------
G|----2-----2-
D|-------2----
A|-0----------
E|------------
   Mm-   mm-  

 Dm +     +   
-------------|
-3-----------|
-------2-----|
----0-----0--|
-------0-----|
-1-----------|
 mm-   mm,    

 F  +  C  +     +     +   
-------0--0--------------|
-1-----1--1--------------|
-2-----------------------|
-------2-----------------|
-------------3-----------|
-1-----------------------|
 yesterday.

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