Chords for In My Life: Peter Noone's Tribute To John Lennon
Tempo:
107.6 bpm
Chords used:
A
E
D
F#m
Dm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[A] [D] [E]
[N] Peter Noon, ladies and gentlemen.
Hello everybody, I'm Peter Noon.
I used to be in a band too.
I used to be in this band called Herman's Homes.
It's like an AA meeting here.
I don't know why everyone's sitting there smiling.
I'd just like to say, you know, I was very fortunate because when I was about 14 or 15, I lived in Liverpool and I got to meet the Fat Four and all around them.
And they were the best people.
I mean, they were really, really nice to my band.
We were like hermits.
And they were very nice.
And I remember I went to a Beatles session at Abbey Road because we were on the same label and we worked next door.
And the unfortunate part about that was every time they wanted a piece of equipment, we had it.
They came and stole it from us.
They said, no, the Beatles need it.
Oh, well, all right.
There was only one piece of everything at Abbey Road.
I remember that I went into the studio one day after they finished work just to see if there was any debris left over that I could use.
And I saw on this tape box, the song was from their new record.
[A] And I saw one [F#m] song and being about 15 at the time, [N] even though I had five records, I was still an imbecile.
I had five number one records, but I was still an idiot because I don't think having hit records makes you any smarter.
And I saw this box and it said on the box, For Noon.
And I went, wow, they wrote a song for Billy J.
Cramer and they've written a song for me.
And I was all excited.
I called my manager.
I said, Harvey, you won't believe it.
The Beatles have written a song for me.
And I said, what's it called?
I said, it's called, I don't know what it's called.
It just says For Noon.
So they've got a song for me.
Actually, the song was For No One.
And my name happens to be Peter No One to some people.
And John always, I sort of escaped it when I got out of school, I'd stopped being called No One and I was called Herman.
And John used to call me Herman No One.
And he was a really nice man.
He was my best friend.
And I [F] was lucky.
I knew his dad, even though he didn't know his dad.
I knew Freddy.
And we had lots of laughs and [N] he bought, John bought me my first drink because I was 16.
And in England, unless you were really smart, you couldn't get in a bar.
When I was 16, I looked like I was 11.
[C] And it's about 10 years ago now.
[N] And he took me to this place called the Ad-Lib Club.
And my memory of the Ad-Lib Club was I got in a lift with John Lennon and I had Beatles boots on.
I was very cool.
I saw their shoes, I bought their shoes.
They were smoking these really smelly American cigarettes.
Horrible ones with like some filter.
You got a black eye if you didn't smoke them or something.
So I got a packet of those and we stood in the lift, elevator, going up to the Ad-Lib.
And in this elevator, they played records.
They played music.
And it was I'm in with the crowd.
And he took me and he says, no one, when we get in here, you order two sodas and I'll get the Bacardi's.
And my first thing was sitting around talking to John Lennon, having my first drink, which was a Bacardi and Coke.
And I think John was a good guy and I bet he would be very amused to find out that after all these years, he's got his picture on all those stamps.
Isn't that wonderful?
Even countries that even 10 [G#] years ago were mortal enemies of all [F] Americans and British and French people.
Now they've got a [N] message from, you know, it's living a world where for some strange reason, all the men of peace always get murdered real quickly, don't they?
Anybody who shouts, give peace a chance.
You know, you got Menachem Begin recently.
[F] You got John Lennon.
You got [B] Sadat.
You got hundreds and hundreds of guys.
[N] Martin Luther King.
Anybody who goes down and says, give peace a chance, they always get some maniac who goes and murders them, right?
I think John would be very happy to find out that one of those countries that used to be our enemies is now a peaceful friend of America, Britain and all of us.
Yes.
[A] Good [Am]
to hear.
[Em] I would [A] like to do a really early John Lennon song.
I wrote the words now because it would be an end song if I forgot them.
This is Frank Anunziata, my musical director, who [N] actually worked with John.
What year did you get fired?
[Am]
A [G] double fantasy [A] project that lots of people got fired from.
[E] This one's called In My Life.
I think it's kind of [G#] appropriate.
[D] There
[A] [E]
[A] [E]
[A] are places I've [F#m] remembered [A] [Dm] all my life.
Though [A] some have changed, some forever not [F#m] for better.
[A] Some [D] I know [Dm] [A] and some remain.
All [F#m] these places have [D] been homes.
[G] With lovers and friends [A] I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are [B] living.
[A] [Dm] In my life [A] I've loved them all.
[E]
[A] [E]
But [A] of all these friends [F#m] and lovers, [D] there is no [Dm] one [A] who cares to heal.
All these memories lose [F#m] their meaning.
[A] When [D] I think of love [A] as something new, [F#m] though I know I'll never [D] lose affection.
[G] For people and things [A] that went before, [F#m] I know I'll often stop and think [B] about them.
In [D] my [A]
[E]
life [A] [E]
[D] [Dm]
[A] I loved [E] you more.
[A] [E]
[A] [B]
[N]
[A] [N]
[A]
[N] Peter Noon, ladies and gentlemen.
Hello everybody, I'm Peter Noon.
I used to be in a band too.
I used to be in this band called Herman's Homes.
It's like an AA meeting here.
I don't know why everyone's sitting there smiling.
I'd just like to say, you know, I was very fortunate because when I was about 14 or 15, I lived in Liverpool and I got to meet the Fat Four and all around them.
And they were the best people.
I mean, they were really, really nice to my band.
We were like hermits.
And they were very nice.
And I remember I went to a Beatles session at Abbey Road because we were on the same label and we worked next door.
And the unfortunate part about that was every time they wanted a piece of equipment, we had it.
They came and stole it from us.
They said, no, the Beatles need it.
Oh, well, all right.
There was only one piece of everything at Abbey Road.
I remember that I went into the studio one day after they finished work just to see if there was any debris left over that I could use.
And I saw on this tape box, the song was from their new record.
[A] And I saw one [F#m] song and being about 15 at the time, [N] even though I had five records, I was still an imbecile.
I had five number one records, but I was still an idiot because I don't think having hit records makes you any smarter.
And I saw this box and it said on the box, For Noon.
And I went, wow, they wrote a song for Billy J.
Cramer and they've written a song for me.
And I was all excited.
I called my manager.
I said, Harvey, you won't believe it.
The Beatles have written a song for me.
And I said, what's it called?
I said, it's called, I don't know what it's called.
It just says For Noon.
So they've got a song for me.
Actually, the song was For No One.
And my name happens to be Peter No One to some people.
And John always, I sort of escaped it when I got out of school, I'd stopped being called No One and I was called Herman.
And John used to call me Herman No One.
And he was a really nice man.
He was my best friend.
And I [F] was lucky.
I knew his dad, even though he didn't know his dad.
I knew Freddy.
And we had lots of laughs and [N] he bought, John bought me my first drink because I was 16.
And in England, unless you were really smart, you couldn't get in a bar.
When I was 16, I looked like I was 11.
[C] And it's about 10 years ago now.
[N] And he took me to this place called the Ad-Lib Club.
And my memory of the Ad-Lib Club was I got in a lift with John Lennon and I had Beatles boots on.
I was very cool.
I saw their shoes, I bought their shoes.
They were smoking these really smelly American cigarettes.
Horrible ones with like some filter.
You got a black eye if you didn't smoke them or something.
So I got a packet of those and we stood in the lift, elevator, going up to the Ad-Lib.
And in this elevator, they played records.
They played music.
And it was I'm in with the crowd.
And he took me and he says, no one, when we get in here, you order two sodas and I'll get the Bacardi's.
And my first thing was sitting around talking to John Lennon, having my first drink, which was a Bacardi and Coke.
And I think John was a good guy and I bet he would be very amused to find out that after all these years, he's got his picture on all those stamps.
Isn't that wonderful?
Even countries that even 10 [G#] years ago were mortal enemies of all [F] Americans and British and French people.
Now they've got a [N] message from, you know, it's living a world where for some strange reason, all the men of peace always get murdered real quickly, don't they?
Anybody who shouts, give peace a chance.
You know, you got Menachem Begin recently.
[F] You got John Lennon.
You got [B] Sadat.
You got hundreds and hundreds of guys.
[N] Martin Luther King.
Anybody who goes down and says, give peace a chance, they always get some maniac who goes and murders them, right?
I think John would be very happy to find out that one of those countries that used to be our enemies is now a peaceful friend of America, Britain and all of us.
Yes.
[A] Good [Am]
to hear.
[Em] I would [A] like to do a really early John Lennon song.
I wrote the words now because it would be an end song if I forgot them.
This is Frank Anunziata, my musical director, who [N] actually worked with John.
What year did you get fired?
[Am]
A [G] double fantasy [A] project that lots of people got fired from.
[E] This one's called In My Life.
I think it's kind of [G#] appropriate.
[D] There
[A] [E]
[A] [E]
[A] are places I've [F#m] remembered [A] [Dm] all my life.
Though [A] some have changed, some forever not [F#m] for better.
[A] Some [D] I know [Dm] [A] and some remain.
All [F#m] these places have [D] been homes.
[G] With lovers and friends [A] I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are [B] living.
[A] [Dm] In my life [A] I've loved them all.
[E]
[A] [E]
But [A] of all these friends [F#m] and lovers, [D] there is no [Dm] one [A] who cares to heal.
All these memories lose [F#m] their meaning.
[A] When [D] I think of love [A] as something new, [F#m] though I know I'll never [D] lose affection.
[G] For people and things [A] that went before, [F#m] I know I'll often stop and think [B] about them.
In [D] my [A]
[E]
life [A] [E]
[D] [Dm]
[A] I loved [E] you more.
[A] [E]
[A] [B]
[N]
[A] [N]
[A]
Key:
A
E
D
F#m
Dm
A
E
D
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _ _ _
_ [N] Peter Noon, ladies and gentlemen. _ _ _ _
Hello _ everybody, I'm Peter Noon.
I used to be in a band too.
I used to be in this band called Herman's Homes. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ It's like an AA meeting here.
I don't know why everyone's sitting there smiling.
_ _ _ I'd just like to say, you know, I was very fortunate because when I was about 14 or 15, I lived in Liverpool and I got to meet the Fat Four and all around them.
And they were _ the best people.
I mean, they were really, really nice to my band.
We were like hermits.
And they were very nice.
And I remember I went to a Beatles session at Abbey Road because we were on the same label and we worked next door.
And the unfortunate part about that was every time they wanted a piece of equipment, we had it.
They came and stole it from us.
They said, no, the Beatles need it.
Oh, well, all right. _ _
There was only one piece of everything at Abbey Road.
I remember that I went into the studio one day after they finished work just to see if there was any debris left over that I could use.
And _ I saw on this tape box, the song was from their new record.
_ [A] And I saw one [F#m] song and being about 15 at the time, [N] even though I had five records, I was still an imbecile.
I had five number one records, but I was still an idiot because I don't think having hit records makes you any smarter.
And I saw this box and it said on the box, For Noon.
And I went, wow, they wrote a song for Billy J.
Cramer and they've written a song for me.
And I was all excited.
I called my manager.
I said, Harvey, you won't believe it.
The Beatles have written a song for me.
And I said, what's it called?
I said, it's called, I don't know what it's called.
It just says For Noon.
So they've got a song for me.
Actually, the song was For No One. _ _
_ _ And my name happens to be Peter No One to some people.
And John always, I sort of escaped it when I got out of school, I'd stopped being called No One and I was called Herman.
And John used to call me Herman No One.
And he was a really nice man.
He was my best friend.
And I [F] was lucky.
I knew his dad, even though he didn't know his dad.
I knew Freddy.
_ And we had lots of laughs and [N] he bought, John bought me my first drink because I was 16.
And in England, unless you were really smart, you couldn't get in a bar.
When I was 16, I looked like I was 11.
_ [C] And it's about 10 years ago now.
[N] And he took me to this place called the Ad-Lib Club.
And my memory of the Ad-Lib Club was I got in a lift with John Lennon and I had Beatles boots on.
I was very cool.
I saw their shoes, I bought their shoes.
They were smoking these really smelly American cigarettes.
Horrible ones with like some filter.
You got a black eye if you didn't smoke them or something.
So I got a packet of those and we stood in the lift, _ _ elevator, going up to the Ad-Lib.
And in this elevator, they played records.
They played music.
And it was I'm in with the crowd.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And he took me and he says, _ no one, when we get in here, you order two sodas and I'll get the Bacardi's.
And my first thing was sitting around talking to John Lennon, having my first drink, which was a Bacardi and Coke.
And I think John was a good guy and I bet he would be very amused to find out that after all these years, he's got his picture on all those stamps.
Isn't that wonderful?
Even countries that even 10 [G#] years ago were mortal enemies of all [F] Americans and British and French people.
Now they've got a [N] message from, you know, it's living a world where for some strange reason, all the men of peace always get murdered real quickly, don't they?
Anybody who shouts, give peace a chance.
You know, you got Menachem Begin recently.
[F] You got John Lennon.
You got [B] Sadat.
You got hundreds and hundreds of guys.
[N] Martin Luther King.
Anybody who goes down and says, give peace a chance, they always get some maniac who goes and murders them, right?
I think John would be very happy to find out that one of those countries that used to be our enemies is now a peaceful friend of America, Britain and all of us. _ _ _
Yes.
_ _ _ _ [A] Good _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ to hear.
_ [Em] I would [A] like to do a really early John Lennon song. _ _ _ _ _
I wrote the words now because it would be an end song if I forgot them. _ _
_ _ _ This is Frank Anunziata, my musical director, who [N] _ _ _ actually worked with John.
What year did you _ get fired?
_ _ [Am]
A [G] double fantasy [A] project that lots of people got fired from.
[E] This one's called In My Life.
I think it's kind of [G#] appropriate.
[D] There _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [A] are places I've [F#m] remembered [A] _ [Dm] all my _ life.
Though [A] some have changed, some forever not [F#m] for better.
_ [A] Some [D] I know [Dm] _ [A] and some remain.
All [F#m] these places have [D] been homes.
_ [G] With lovers and friends [A] I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are [B] living.
[A] _ [Dm] In my life [A] I've loved them all.
_ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ But [A] of all these friends [F#m] and lovers, _ [D] there is no [Dm] one [A] who cares to heal.
All these memories lose [F#m] their meaning.
[A] When [D] I think of love [A] as something new, [F#m] though I know I'll never [D] lose affection.
_ [G] For people and things [A] that went before, [F#m] I know I'll often stop and think [B] about them.
In [D] my _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
life _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [A] I loved [E] you more.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [N] Peter Noon, ladies and gentlemen. _ _ _ _
Hello _ everybody, I'm Peter Noon.
I used to be in a band too.
I used to be in this band called Herman's Homes. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ It's like an AA meeting here.
I don't know why everyone's sitting there smiling.
_ _ _ I'd just like to say, you know, I was very fortunate because when I was about 14 or 15, I lived in Liverpool and I got to meet the Fat Four and all around them.
And they were _ the best people.
I mean, they were really, really nice to my band.
We were like hermits.
And they were very nice.
And I remember I went to a Beatles session at Abbey Road because we were on the same label and we worked next door.
And the unfortunate part about that was every time they wanted a piece of equipment, we had it.
They came and stole it from us.
They said, no, the Beatles need it.
Oh, well, all right. _ _
There was only one piece of everything at Abbey Road.
I remember that I went into the studio one day after they finished work just to see if there was any debris left over that I could use.
And _ I saw on this tape box, the song was from their new record.
_ [A] And I saw one [F#m] song and being about 15 at the time, [N] even though I had five records, I was still an imbecile.
I had five number one records, but I was still an idiot because I don't think having hit records makes you any smarter.
And I saw this box and it said on the box, For Noon.
And I went, wow, they wrote a song for Billy J.
Cramer and they've written a song for me.
And I was all excited.
I called my manager.
I said, Harvey, you won't believe it.
The Beatles have written a song for me.
And I said, what's it called?
I said, it's called, I don't know what it's called.
It just says For Noon.
So they've got a song for me.
Actually, the song was For No One. _ _
_ _ And my name happens to be Peter No One to some people.
And John always, I sort of escaped it when I got out of school, I'd stopped being called No One and I was called Herman.
And John used to call me Herman No One.
And he was a really nice man.
He was my best friend.
And I [F] was lucky.
I knew his dad, even though he didn't know his dad.
I knew Freddy.
_ And we had lots of laughs and [N] he bought, John bought me my first drink because I was 16.
And in England, unless you were really smart, you couldn't get in a bar.
When I was 16, I looked like I was 11.
_ [C] And it's about 10 years ago now.
[N] And he took me to this place called the Ad-Lib Club.
And my memory of the Ad-Lib Club was I got in a lift with John Lennon and I had Beatles boots on.
I was very cool.
I saw their shoes, I bought their shoes.
They were smoking these really smelly American cigarettes.
Horrible ones with like some filter.
You got a black eye if you didn't smoke them or something.
So I got a packet of those and we stood in the lift, _ _ elevator, going up to the Ad-Lib.
And in this elevator, they played records.
They played music.
And it was I'm in with the crowd.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And he took me and he says, _ no one, when we get in here, you order two sodas and I'll get the Bacardi's.
And my first thing was sitting around talking to John Lennon, having my first drink, which was a Bacardi and Coke.
And I think John was a good guy and I bet he would be very amused to find out that after all these years, he's got his picture on all those stamps.
Isn't that wonderful?
Even countries that even 10 [G#] years ago were mortal enemies of all [F] Americans and British and French people.
Now they've got a [N] message from, you know, it's living a world where for some strange reason, all the men of peace always get murdered real quickly, don't they?
Anybody who shouts, give peace a chance.
You know, you got Menachem Begin recently.
[F] You got John Lennon.
You got [B] Sadat.
You got hundreds and hundreds of guys.
[N] Martin Luther King.
Anybody who goes down and says, give peace a chance, they always get some maniac who goes and murders them, right?
I think John would be very happy to find out that one of those countries that used to be our enemies is now a peaceful friend of America, Britain and all of us. _ _ _
Yes.
_ _ _ _ [A] Good _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ to hear.
_ [Em] I would [A] like to do a really early John Lennon song. _ _ _ _ _
I wrote the words now because it would be an end song if I forgot them. _ _
_ _ _ This is Frank Anunziata, my musical director, who [N] _ _ _ actually worked with John.
What year did you _ get fired?
_ _ [Am]
A [G] double fantasy [A] project that lots of people got fired from.
[E] This one's called In My Life.
I think it's kind of [G#] appropriate.
[D] There _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [A] are places I've [F#m] remembered [A] _ [Dm] all my _ life.
Though [A] some have changed, some forever not [F#m] for better.
_ [A] Some [D] I know [Dm] _ [A] and some remain.
All [F#m] these places have [D] been homes.
_ [G] With lovers and friends [A] I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are [B] living.
[A] _ [Dm] In my life [A] I've loved them all.
_ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ But [A] of all these friends [F#m] and lovers, _ [D] there is no [Dm] one [A] who cares to heal.
All these memories lose [F#m] their meaning.
[A] When [D] I think of love [A] as something new, [F#m] though I know I'll never [D] lose affection.
_ [G] For people and things [A] that went before, [F#m] I know I'll often stop and think [B] about them.
In [D] my _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
life _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [A] I loved [E] you more.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _