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From: hertzberg@netcad.enet.dec.com (Marc Hertzberg (History: Love it or leave it!))
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----------------------
you
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
