Yer Blues - JOHN LENNON - LIVE (1969, Toronto)


YER BLUES (co-composed with Paul McCartney)
(c) 1968 Northern Songs


Chords used:
          EADGBE
E:        022100
A:        577655
A7:       575655
B7:       797877
G:        355433

          E
Yes, I'm lonely
Wanna die
          A7
Yes, I'm lonely
       E
Wanna die
      G
If I ain't dead already
B7                               E  A  E  B7
Ooh - girl, you know the reason why

In the morning
Wanna die
In the evening
Wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Girl, you know the reason why

                         E (once)
My mother was of the sky
                           E (once)
My father was of the earth
But I am of the universe
     E
And you know what it's worth

     A
I'm lonely
       E
Wanna die
      G
If I ain't dead already
B7                               E  A  E  B7
Ooh - girl, you know the reason why

The eagle picks my eye
The worm he licks my bone
I feel so suicidal
Just like Dylan's Mister Jones

Lonely
Wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh - girl, you know the reason why

Black cloud crossed my mind
Blue mist round my soul
Feel so suicidal
Even hate my rock 'n' roll

I'm lonely
Wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Girl, you know the reason why


NOTE: "Called Eric [Clapton]. [...] Got Klaus, and we got
alan White. [...] And I said, Look, there's this thing in
Toronto, do you want to come? They said, Okay. Now we didn't
know what to play, because we'd never played together before,
the band. And on the airplane we're running through these oldies,
so the rehearsal for that record, which turned into not a bad
record, was on the plane with electric guitars, so you... Not
even acoustic, you couldn't hear... [...] "Yer Blues", yeah.
Because I'd done... I think I'd worked "Yer Blues" with Eric
on the Rock'n' Roll Circus show of Mick, the Rolling Stones
show." (John Lennon, 1980)