Beatles

Beatles - Ask Me Why guitar tab

Ask Me Why

(Lennon/McCartney)

Intro:

[this little lick also used over some E chords during verses]

E

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-|-----9--9----------

-|--7-----------7----

-|-----------7-------

Verse:

E F#m G#m F#m E

I love you 'cos you tell me things I want to know

E F#m G#m F#m E G#7

And it's true that it really only goes to show that I know

C#m A F#m B7

That I I I I would never ever ever be blue

E F#m G#m F#m E

Now you're mine my happiness near makes me cry

E F#m G#m F#m E G#7

And in time you'll understand the reason why that I cry

C#m

It's not because I'm sad

A E E+ (e.g., 076550)

But you're the only love that I've ever had

Middle:

A B7 E E+

I can't believe it's happened to me

A B7 E B7

I can't conceive of any more misery

Verse:

E F#m G#m F#m

Ask me why I'll say I love you [second time jump to ending]

G#m A E E+

And I'm always thinking of you

[now repeat from the middle]

Ending:

G#m A E A

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-|------------------------------------9--9-------------

-|---------------------------------7-----------7-------

-|------------------------------------------7----------

And I'm always thinking of you you

E A G#m

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-|--------------------------4--4----------------

-|--------------------------------4--4--4--4----

-|-----9--9-----------------------------6--6----

-|--7-----------7-------------------------------

-|-----------7-----------4----------------------

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Beatles Tab by Marc Hertzberg

Digital Equipment Corporation

hertzberg@netcad.enet.dec.com

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Tab Special Notations:

---5/7--- play fret five, slide up to fret seven

---7\\5--- play fret seven, slide down to fret five

--8b(9)-- play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach

the pitch of fret nine

--b(9)8-- play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,

unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight

---/7---- slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is

undefined, judge by ear)

---15\\--- play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is

undefined, judge by ear)

---1h3--- play fret one and hammer-on to fret three

---7p5--- play fret seven and pull-off to fret five

-7b(9)r7- play fret seven, bend up to fret nine, release back to fret

seven

--5h7p5-- play fret five, hammer on to fret seven, pull off to fret five

--X------ pick string, but do not press string to fret; left hand mute

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