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Eleanor Rigby

by the beatles · posted by zephyrazure

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
4/4 time  moderate with a steady-4 lilt.

-8      8   9  9     9   8  8  6  5
Ah,____look at all___ the lone-ly peo-ple!

-5  6  -6 -5 4     -5   6  -6   7     -7  -6  -7
El-ea-nor Rig-by,  picks up the rice__ in the church_

  -6    6  -6   6   -5  6         
__where a wed-ding has been,___  

-5   6 6  7  -6
lives in a dream____

-5    6  -6  -5  -4    -5   6  -6   7       -7  -6   -7
Waits at the win-dow, wear-ing the face___ that she keeps__

  -6 6 6      6  -5  6      
__in a jar___ by the door___ 

-5  6  -6 7  -6
who is it for?____

Chorus:

6    -5  6   -6  -5 4    -4   -8  -6  6       -5   -4
All the lone-ly peo-ple, where do they all___ come from?

6    -5  6   -6  -5 4    -4   -9  -8  -6  6   -5
All the lone-ly peo-ple, where do they all be-long?

-8      8   -9  9     -9   8   -8 6  -5
Ah,___ look at all___ the lone-ly peo-ple____

-5 6  -6   -5 4   -5  6  -6    7
El-ea-nor Rig-by, died in the church__ 

   -7  -6 7  -6  6  -6      6   -5   6
__and was bur-ied a-long___ with her name,____

-5  6 6  -7/  -6
no-bod-y came.____

-5  6   -6 5  -4   -5   6  -6   7      -7  -6   -7
Fa-ther Mc Ken-zie, wip-ing the dirt__ from his hands__

  -6 6  -6      6    -5   6
__as he walks__ from the grave,__

-5  6  -6  -7/   -6
no one was saved.__

Verse 2:
Father McKenzie, writing the wrods of a sermon
that no one will hear, no one comes near.
Look a him working, darning his socks in the night
when there's nobody there, what does he care?

Repeat Chorus

*The -7/ bend down 1/2 step to Bb.
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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