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Eleanor Rigby

Beatles


Strum: D d D d D d D DU <-Play upstroke only before chord changes
       1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
 
Chord Guide
       32 1
C:    x32010
       12
Em:   022000
       12 4
Em7:  022030
       12 3
Em6:  022020
 
 
C (2)                              Em (2)
Ah, look at all the lonely people
C (2)                              Em (2)
Ah, look at all the lonely people
 
Em (3)
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has 
       C (2)
been—Lives in a dream
Em (3)
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the 
       C (2)
door—Who is it for?
 
Em7             Em6
All the lonely people
          C                       Em
Where do they all come from?
Em7             Em6
All the lonely people
          C                  Em
Where do they all belong?
 
Em (3)                                                                
Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will 
       C (2)
hear--No one comes near.
Em
Look at him working. Darning his socks in the night when there's 
                   C (2)
nobody there--What does he care?
 
Em7             Em6
All the lonely people
          C                       Em
Where do they all come from?
Em7             Em6
All the lonely people
          C                  Em
Where do they all belong?
 
C (2)                              Em (2)
Ah, look at all the lonely people
C (2)                              Em (2)
Ah, look at all the lonely people
 
Em (3)                                                                
Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her 
       C (2)
name--Nobody came
Em (3)                                                                
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the 
       C (2)
grave--No one was saved
 
Em7             Em6
All the lonely people
          C                       Em
Where do they all come from?
Em7             Em6
All the lonely people
          C                  Em (hold)
Where do they all belong?

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