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PENNY LANE - The Beatles
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Tabbed by: Alejandro Carrasco
Email: alejcr@gmail.com
Tuning: Standard
Chords used:
B: 7 9 9 8 7 7 or x 2 4 4 4 2
B/D#: x 6 4 4 4 x
G#m7: 4 6 4 4 4 4
C#m7: x 4 6 4 5 4
F#: 2 4 4 3 2 2
G: 3 5 5 4 3 3
F#sus4: 2 2 4 4 2 2 or 2 4 4 4 2 2
A: x 0 2 2 2 0
A/C#: x 4 2 2 2 x
D: x x 0 2 3 2
E: 0 2 2 1 0 0
Verse:
B G#m7 C#m7 F#
Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
B G#m7 B#m7
Of every head he's had the pleasure to have known
G#m7 G
And all the people that come and go
F#sus4 F# F#sus4 F#
Stop and say hello
B G#m7 C#m7 F#
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
B G#m7 B#m7
The little children laugh at him behind his back
G#m7 G
And the banker never wears a mac
F#
In the pouring rain...
E
Very strange
Chorus:
A A/C# D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A A/C# D
There beneath the blue suburban skies
F#
I sit, and meanwhile back
Verse:
B G#m7 C#m7 F#
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
B G#m7 B#m7
And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen.
G#m7 G
He likes to keep his fire engine clean
F#sus4 F# F#sus4 F#
It's a clean machine
My Trumpet Solo Adaptation for Guitar
E|-----------------------------------|---------------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|---------7-------7---9---7---9---|-11--9---11--12*----12*--|
G|-8-----8-------6---8---6---8---9---|-8---9-------9-------------------|-------------------------|
D|-----------9-----------------------|---------------------------------|-------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|---------------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|---------------------------------|-------------------------|
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/beatles/penny_lane_crd_ver_5.html ]
E|---------------------------------|-10------------------------------|-10--10--10--10--10--------|
B|-----------------7---10*---------|-----10--------------------------|---------------------------|
G|-----6---8---9-------------------|---------11------11--------------|---------------------------|
D|-9-------------------------------|-------------12------12--12------|---------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------|
E|-7---9---10--7---9---------------|-------------------------12------|
B|---------------------------------|-------------12------12----------|
G|---------------------------------|-----13----------13--------------|
D|---------------------------------|-14------14----------------------|
A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
*Those notes sound cool if produced using a half step bend
Chorus
A A/C# D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A A/C# D
Four of fish and finger pies
F#
In summer, meanwhile back
Verse:
B G#m7 C#m7 F#
Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
B G#m7 B#m7
A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
G#m7 G
And though she feels as if she's in a play
F#sus4 F# F#sus4 F#
She is anyway
B G#m7 C#m7 F#
Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer
B G#m7 B#m7
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim
G#m7 G
Then the fireman rushes in
F#
From the pouring rain...
E
Very strange
Chorus:
A A/C# D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A A/C# D
There beneath the blue suburban skies
F#
I sit, and meanwhile back
Final Chorus 2 semitones up. Use B* = x 2 4 4 4 2 which is very similar to B/D# =
x 6 4 4 4 x so that when you change chords no voices are inverted only the bass
note changes
B* B/D# E
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
B* B/D# E
There beneath the blue suburban skies...
B
Penny Lane.
