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)
Chorus 1
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Verse
Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice in the church
where a wedding has been, lives in a dream.
Waits at the window, wearing a face that she keeps
in a jar by the door, who is it for?
Chorus 2
All the lonley people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Verse
Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon
that no one will hear, no one comes near.
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night
when there's nobody there. What does he care?
Chorus 2
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Chorus 1
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Verse
Eleanor Rigby, died in the church and buried
along with her name, nobody came.
Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands
as he walks from the grave, no one was saved.
Chorus 2
Ah, look at all the lone - ly peo - ple.
All the lone - ly peo-ple, where do they all come from?
Ah, look at all the lone - ly peo - ple.
All the lone - ly peo-ple, where do they all belong?