Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Bandv12

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Album

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

2. With A Little Help From My Friends

3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

4. Getting Better

5. Fixing A Hole

6. She's Leaving Home

7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite

8. Within You Without You

9. When I'm Sixty-Four

10. Lovely Rita

11. Good Morning, Good Morning

12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)

13. A Day In The Life

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band

Intro:

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Verse 1:

It was twenty years ago today

Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play

They've been going in and out of style

But they're guaranteed to raise a smile

So may I introduce to you

The act you've known for all these years

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band

Trumpet Solo:

Chorus:

We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band

We hope you will enjoy the show

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band

Sit back and let the evening go

Bridge:

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely

Heart's Club Band

It's wonderful to be here

It's certainly a thrill

You're such a lovely audience

We'd like to take you home with us

We'd love to take you home

Verse 2:

I don't really wanna stop the show

But I thought you might like to know

That the singer's gonna sing a song

And he wants you all to sing along

So may I introduce to you

The one and only Billy Shears

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band

(Segue into "With A Little Help from My Friends")

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WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

Billy Shears!

riff 1:

What would you think if I sang out of tune

Would you stand up and walk out on me?

Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song

And I'll try not to sing out of key

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends

A E [riff 2: see below] B

Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

What do I do when my love is away

(Does it worry you to be alone?)

How do I feel by the end of the day

(Are you sad because you're on your own?)

No, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, get high with a little help from my friends

Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

(Do you need anybody?)

I need somebody to love

(Could it be anybody?)

I want somebody to love

(Would you believe in a love at first sight)

Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time

(What do you see when you turn out the light)

I can't tell you but I know it's mine

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, get high with a little help from my friends

Oh, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends

(Do you need anybody?)

I just need someone to love

(Could it be anybody?)

I want somebody to love

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends

Oh I get high with a little help from my friends

Yes, I get by with a little help from my friends

With a little help from my friends

riff2:

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LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS

That cool riff that underlines John's section of the song is played on

a keyboard instrument and is a little awkward to play on the guitar.

If you're stuck on playing it on a guitar, I recommend capoing on the

12th fret and playing the following (you could play this without the

capo--the riff would just be an octave lower). The chords that go a

long the riff are simple enough--just an A chord with a bass line

moving beneath it.

let ring:

Picture yourself in a boat on a river

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly

A girl with caleidoscope eyes

Picture yourself in a boat on a river

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly

A girl with caleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green

Towering over your head

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ahhhhh

Follow her down to a bridge by the fountain

Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies

Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers

That grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore

Waiting to take you away

Climb in the back with your head in the clouds and you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ahhhhh

Picture yourself on a train in a station

With plasticine porters with looking glass ties

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile

The girl with caleidoscope eyes

[repeat and fade:]

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ahhhhh

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Fmaj7 (V)

It's getting better all the time

I used to get mad at my school (No, I can't complain)

The teachers that taught me weren't cool (No, I can't complain)

You're holding me down, turning me around

Filling me up with your rules

CHORUS:

I've got to admit it's getting better

A little better all the time

I have to admit it's getting better

It's getting better since you've been mine

Me used to be angry young man

Me hiding me head in the sand

You gave me the word I finally heard

I'm doing the best that I can ...CHORUS

BRIDGE:

Getting so much better all the time

It's getting better all the time, better, better, better

It's getting better all the time, better, better, better

I used to be cruel to my woman G F C G

I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved

Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene

And I'm doing the best that I can

CHORUS #2:

I admit it's getting better

A little better all the time (can't get no worse)

Yes, I admit it's getting better

It's getting better since you've been mine ...BRIDGE

Getting so much better all the time

Fmaj7 (V): x 8 7 5 5 5 C/E: x 0 2 0 1 3

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Fixing a Hole

INTRO:

F C+ Fm7 Fm7(II) Bb7

F C+ Fm7 (2 beats per chord)

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in and

stops my mind from wan - dering where it will go______

I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door and

kept my mind from wan - dering where it will go And it

really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right where I belong

I'm right where I belong

See the people standing there who disagree and never win and

wonder why they don't get in my door I'm

painting the room in a col - orful way and when my mind is wan -

dering there I will go Oo oo oo ah

Silly people run around who worry me and never ask me

why they don't get past my door I'm

taking the time to do a number of things that weren't important yes-

terday and I still go

Bb9 = x10111

C+ = xx2110

Gm/C = x3033x

Fm6 = xx0111

Fm7 = xx1111

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She's leaving home

Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins

Silently closing her bedroom door

Leaving the note that she hoped would say more

She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching a handkerchief

Quietly turning the backdoor key

Stepping outside she is free

She (we gave her most of our lives)

Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)

Home (We gave her everything money could)

She is leaving home after living alone for so many years

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown,

Picks up the letter that's lying there.

Standing alone at the top of the stairs,

She breaks down and cries to her husband Daddy our baby's gone.

Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?

How could she do this to me?

She (we never thought of ourselves)

Is leaving (never a thought for ourselves)

Home (we struggled hard all our lives to get by)

She's leaving home after living alone for so many years

Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away

Waiting to keep the appointment she made

Meeting a man from the motor trade

She (what did we do that was wrong?)

Is having (we didn't know it was wrong)

Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy)

Something inside that was always denied for so many years

She's leaving home bye bye

Chords used:

A x02220

Bm X24432

B11 x22222

B7 x21202

C#m x46654

E 022100

F#m 244222

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BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. KITE

For the benefit of Mr. Kite

There will be a show tonight on trampoline

The Hendersons will all be there

Late of Pablo Fanques Fair- what a scene!

Over man and horses hoops and garters

Lastly through a hogshead of real fire!

In this way Mr. K. will challenge the world!

The celebrated Mr. K.

performs his feat on Saturday at Bishopsgate

The Hendersons will dance and sing

As Mr. Kite flies through the ring- don't be late!

Messrs. K. and H. assure the public

Their production will be second to none

And of course Henry The Horse dances the waltz!

The band begins at ten to six

When Mr. K. performs his tricks without a sound

And Mr. H. will demonstrate

Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground

We've been some days in preparation

A splendid time is guaranteed for all

And tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill!

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Within You Without You

Boy, this is a tricky one. The whole song revolves around a droning C note

on the sitar, so there are no chord changes. If you happen to have a sitar,

maybe if you fiddle around a little you can pick out the tune - it's in the

key of C, obviously. For the rest of us, pick up that guitar, start strumming

open C, and sing what follows!

Verse:

We were talking

about the space between us all

and the people

who hide themselves behind a wall

of illusion

Never glimpse the truth,

then it's far too late

when they pass away.....

We were talking

about the love we all could share

when we find it

to try our best to hold it there

with our love

with our love we could save the world

if they only knew.....

"Chorus":

Try to realize it's all within your self,

no one else can make you change

And to see you're really only very small,

and life flows within in you and without you

Verse:

We were talking

about the love that's gone so cold

and the people

who gain the world and lose their soul

They don't know....

They can't see.....

Are you one of them

Coda:

When you've seen beyond yourself

then you may find, peace of mind,

is waiting there

And the time will come

when you see we're all one,

and life flows within you and without you

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WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR

The song is in C#. Not a good key for guitar. So I suggest capoing the

first fret and playing in C. If you're a purist, just move all the chords

up a half step.

When I get old and losing my hair many years from now,

Will you still be senting me a Valentine birthday greetings bottle of wine?

If I'd been out 'till quarter to three would you lock the door?

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

(Mmm mmm mmm)

You'll be older too.

(Aah) And if you say the word,

I could stay with you.

I could be handy mending a fuse when your lights have gone.

You can knit a sweater by the fireside, Sunday mornings go for a ride.

Doing the garden, digging the weeds, who could ask for more?

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight if it's not to dear.

We shall scrimp and save.

(Aah) Grandchildren on your knee,

Vera, Chuck, and Dave.

Send me a postcard, drop me a line, stating point of view.

Indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely wasting away.

Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

outro:

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Lovely Rita

Intro:

CHORUS

Lovely Rita meter maid Lovely Rita meter maid

Lovely Rita meter maid nothing can come between us

When it gets dark I tow your heart away

Standing by a parking meter when I caught a glimpse of Rita

filling in a ticket in her little white book

In a cap whe looked much older, and the bag across her shoulder

made her look a little like a military man

Lovely Rita meter maid may I enquire discreetly

When are you free to take some tea with me?

E6/B B7 |E D A|E B7 |E F#7 |B7 |

Ah Rita

CHORUS

Took her out and tried to win her, had a laugh, and over dinner

told her I would really like to see her again

Got the bill and Rita paid it, took her home, I nearly made it,

sitting on the sofa with a sister or two

Oh, lovely Rita, meter maid, where would I be without you?

Give us a wink and make me think of you

CHORUS

C#m = xx2120

F#7 = xx4320

F#m7 = xx2222

B7 = x21202

A/B = x2222x

G#m/B = x2110x

F#m/B = x24222

E6/B = x22120

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Good Morning

Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning ah

Nothing to do to save his life call his wife in

Nothing to say but "What a Day, how's your boy been?"

Nothing to do, its up to you

I've got nothing to say but its okay

Good Morning, good morning, good morning ah

Going to work, don't want to go feeling low down

Heading for home you start to roam when you're in town

Everybody knows there's nothing doing

Everything's closed, it's like a ruin

Everyone you see is half asleep

And you're on your own you're in the street

After a while you start to smile, now you feel cool

Then you decide to take a walk by the old school

Nothing had changed it's still the same

I've got nothing to say but it's okay

Good morning, good morning, good morning ah

[solo]

People running round it's five o'clock

Everywhere in town is getting dark

Everyone you see is full of life

It's time for tea and meet the wife

Somebody needs to know the time, glad that I'm here

Watching the skirts you start to flirt, now you're in gear

Go to a show you hope she goes

I've got nothing to say, but it's okay

Good morning, good morning, good

Good morning, good morning, good...

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's

Club Band (Reprise)

Intro:

4 Bars of drums, then:

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this: X-8-10-10-10-X

We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's

Club Band We hope you will enjoy the show

Fill:

We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's

Club Band We're sorry but it's time to go

Fill:

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Ser-

geant Pepper's Lonely Ser-

geant Pepper's Lonely Ser-

geant Pepper's Lonely Ser-

geant Pepper's Lonely

Heart's Club Band We'd

Like to thank you once again

Fill:

Sergeant Pepper's one and only Lonely Heart's

Club Band It's getting very near the end

Fill:

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Ser-

geant Pepper's Lonely Ser-

geant Pepper's Lonely

Heart's_____ Club_____

Band____

End lick:

This song leads directly into "A Day in the Life"

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I read the news today oh boy,

About a lucky man who made the grade.

And though the news was rather sad,

Well I just had to laugh,

I saw the photograph.

He blew his mind out in a car,

He didn't notice that the lights had changed,

A crowd of people stood and stared,

They'd seen his face before,

Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh boy

The English army had just won the war

A crowd of people turned away

But I just had to look

Having read the book

I'd love to turn you on....

(Orchestral climax leading to an E chord)

Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup

And looking up, I noticed I was late

Found my coat and grabbed my hat, made the bus in seconds flat

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke

And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

Aah ah ah ah Aah ah ah Ah ah

Aah ah ah ah Aah ah ah Ah ah

I read the news today oh boy,

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.

And though the holes were rather small,

They had to count them all,

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

I'd love to turn you on

(Orchestral climax leading to a massive E chord)

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