In My Life - JOHN LENNON - RUBBER SOUL (1965)


IN MY LIFE (co-composed with Paul McCartney)
(c) 1965 Northern Songs


Chords used:

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Dm7:   557565

INTRO [twice]:

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[GUITAR II:]
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   There are places I remember
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   All my life____   though some have changed
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    Some forever not for better
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Some have gone___ and some remain
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All these places have their moments
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With lovers and friends    I still can recall   Some are dead...
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...and some are living              In my____ life  I've loved them all
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[INTRO]

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more___
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[INSTRUMENTAL VERSE]

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

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In my life I love you more

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[GUITAR II:]
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NOTE: "[...] And it was, I think, my first real major piece of work. Up till then it had all been glib and throwaway. And that was the first time I consciously out my literary part of myself into the lyric. Inspired by Kenneth Alsopf [sic], the British journalist, and Bob Dylan." (John Lennon, 1980)