Strawberry Fields Forever (tab) — Beatles

#This file is the author`s own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # From: Howard Wright (Hman) <[email protected]> Subject: b/beatles/strawberry_fields_forever.tab Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:29:06 +0100 (BST)

Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles

From the album `Magical Mystery Tour`

Tabbed by Howard Wright

There are two other versions of this in the archives, but none are in the right key. I thought a great song such as this deserved a proper tab in the archives.

Because the recording of this song involved a lot of playing around with tape speeds, you need to tune down your guitar by a whole step.

So instead of tuning your bottom string to E, tune to D, then tune the other strings to this by playing at the 5th/4th fret (you know the routine ...)

You should end up tuned to DGCFAD.

This means that the song is based on the C chord for the guitar, but it ends up being in the key of Bb.

I`ve tried to give a guitar part that does justice to all the things that are going on in the song. For the first bit it`s fairly straight forward since the song has a guitar playing here - but later on I`ve tried to tab out a guitar version of what the cellos and trumpets are doing.

Of course you can`t play all of the song on just one guitar - but you can do a pretty good job. I`ve written the chords above each line of tab if you just want to strum along, and the words are underneath the line of tab.

This is played on the mellotron, but you can do it fairly easily on guitar.

Chorus

Let me take you down cos` I`m going to Strawberry fields

Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry fields forever

Verse

Living is easy with eyes closed

Misunderstanding all you see

It`s getting hard to be someone but it all works out

It doesn`t matter much to me

Chorus

Let me take you down cos` I`m going to Strawberry fields

(no chord)

Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry fields forever

Linking phrase :

This is the little downwards scale played on a harp-like instrument. Leave all strings to sustain as much as possible.

Verse

Noone I think is in my tree

I mean it must be high or low

That is you can`t you know tune in but it`s alright

That is I think it`s not too bad

Chorus

Let me take you down cos I`m going to

Strawberry fields Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry fields forever

Linking phrase :

Verse

Always, no, sometimes think it`s me

But you know I know when it`s a dream

I think a no I mean a yes but it`s all wrong

That is I think I disagree

Chorus

Let me take you down cos` I`m going to Strawberry fields

Nothing is real

And nothing to get hung about

Strawberry fields forever Strawberry fields forever

Strawberry fields forever

Fade out over a chord of C

(cellos) (elec. gtr)

(harp-thing)

etc etc fade back in, a few weird noises etc etc ......