Yer Blues - JOHN LENNON - HOME RECORDING (1968)


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: "[this song] was written in India, too. The same thing: up
there trying to reach God and feeling suicidal." (John Lennon, 1980)