Tuning: E A D G B E

Song: This Boy Artists: The Beatles Album: Past Masters, 2009 URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_vqE2hBWkg; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Boy; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Masters Time: 12|8 Method: Gentle accelerated strumming with rests Tuning: Standard Chords: EADGBe D XX0232 Dsus2 XX0230 Bm X03320 Em 022000 A7 X02020 Em/D XX0000 N.C. No Chord A X02220 Dsus4 XX0233 D9 XX0210 G 355433 F#7 244322 D7 XX0212 [INTRO] |D Dsus2 D|| (Arpeggiated Chords) |D Bm|Em A7||(Strummed Chords) [VERSE 1]

^DThat boy^Bm____^Emtook my ^A7love a^Dway_^Bm___, ^EmThough he'll ^A7regret it some^Dday ^Bm____. But ^Em/Dthis

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boy____^Awants

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you back ^Dagain^Bm.___^Em_ ^A7

[VERSE 2]

^DThat boy^Bm____^Emisn't ^A7good for ^Dyou__^Bm__, ^Em Though he may ^A7want you ^Dtoo_^Bm___. This ^Em/Dboy___

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_____^Awants

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you back ^Dsus4again__^D__.^D9

[CHORUS]

Oh, and ^Gthis boy____would be ^F#7happy____,(Ah-h-h-h) Just to ^Bmlove__you, but oh ^Dmy-hi-hi-^D7hi-a!(Ah-h-h-h) ^GThat boy____won't be ^E7happy,(Ah-h-h-h) ^A7Till he's seen you cry_

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___.(Ah-h-h-h)

[VERSE 3]

^DThis boy_^Bm___^Emwouldn't ^A7mind the ^Dpain_^Bm___, ^EmWould always ^A7feel the ^Dsame_^Bm___. If ^Em/Dthis boy ^Agets you back ^Dagain____^Em. ^A7

[CODA]

^D7This ^Bmboy,^Em ^A7 ^DThis ^Bmboy.^Em ^A7 (D7 Bm Em A7) (This boy.) [Fade Out]

[End] NOTES: 1. “…They recorded fifteen takes of "This Boy", followed by two overdubs. The song was recorded with a rounded ending, although it was faded out during a mixing session on 21 October. Two takes were joined together to make the final master, with the edit between the middle eight and final verse (1:28). …” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Boy 2. “…It was very co-written. We wanted to do a close-harmony thing, we liked harmonies and we were quite good at them. We used to do a close-harmony version of the Teddy Bears' To Know Her Is To Love Her, which was good for the versatility in the band. We weren't all rock 'n' roll, we could change the pace, which was always nice after you'd played for three hours. We wrote it in two-part harmony and then put the third part in for George to sing; we'd never actually tried to write something like that. Nice middle, John sang that great, then we'd go back into the close-harmony thing. …” - Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now, Barry Miles http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/this-boy/