

‘It’s not like me to pretend / But I’ll get you, I’ll get you in the end.’ Chords Verse1 First things first, Lord I put You before All other goals, things Ive strived for Ive found a love that will last You are better Than all. And that’s why people liked, and like, these songs. The general sentiment of The Beatles’ early songs, including “I’ll Get You,” is “pretty straight up.” Paul continued, “Not a lot of irony.

He thinks it “may be a bit much to say that the chord is commenting on the word ‘pretend’ – suggesting that the character in the song may not be taken at face value, that he’s actually pretending to feel, to present a feeling he’s not really committed to. “It doesn’t quite belong, and that’s the secret of this song,” Paul wrote. That is, until the lyric “It’s not like me to pretend.” Paul calls the chord under “pretend” weird. Otherwise, these are fairly standard chords.” “But then you start to juxtapose them a bit, and the opening of ‘I’ll Get You’ is an example of what happens. “We’d learnt the sort of C, A minor, F, G, and D sequences – the straight, ‘triady’ things,” Paul wrote. In The Lyrics, Paul spoke about the musical structure of The Beatles’ “I’ll Get You.” He thinks the tune has a “really effective opening.” A D major chord comes in as they sing “Oh yeah” in an octave. Paul revealed there’s a secret chord in The Beatles’ ‘I’ll Get You’ Whatever his Aunt’s opinion was of his friends and music, John continued associating with Paul and George. Who is this, bringing this boy around to this house? Look at him he looks dreadful like a Teddy Boy.’ And he’d just say, ‘Shut up, Mary, shut up!'”

“I remember going to John’s house once when I first had met him, I was still at the Institute, and we were trying to look like Teddy boys… I must have looked pretty good because she didn’t like me at all, she was really shocked. In George Harrison: Living in the Material World, George Harrison explained, “John was always keen to get out of his house because his Aunt Mimi was kind of very stern and strict, and she embarrassed him. Bm G D covered in shame hiding my face A Bm I owned a debt i could not pay G D Searching in vain to fill my hearts ache A I threw my worth away Fm G When i. She treated them like they were the worst company in the world. She was a strict, strong-willed woman who didn’t want her nephew to waste his life on music.Īccording to Paul McCartney, John was “the posh one,” living in a nice neighborhood, but Mimi hated when John’s friends came over to play music. John’s Aunt Mimi raised him starting from when he was a toddler. In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he and his songwriter partner wrote the tune at John’s house on Menlove Avenue. The Beatles’ “I’ll Get You” was the B-side of their 1963 hit single, “She Loves You.” However, Paul and John wrote it years before while still living in Liverpool. The Beatles | Mark and Colleen Hayward/Getty Images Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote the song when they were still living in Liverpool The songwriting partners didn’t know many chords back then, but they had recently learned a new one when they wrote the tune. McCartney revealed there’s a secret chord in The Beatles‘ “I’ll Get You.” He and John Lennon wrote the song while still living in Liverpool. Var scpt = document.getElementsByTagName('script') Var elem = document.createElement('script') Įlem.src = ( = "https:" ? " : " + "./quant.js" Searching in vain to fill my heart's acheĭiv_id: "cf_async_" + Math.floor((Math.random() * 999999999)),ĭocument.write('') var c=function())(document, window, "yandex_metrika_callbacks") Waste It All Chords Waste it all - Kim walker-smith
