Chords for ♪♫ The Beatles - The Things We Said Today (Tutorial)

_ Okay, here's a tutorial [G] for Beatles Things We Said Today [G] from Hard Day's Night.
This [Ab] one you need [C] to know two distinct parts [Db] for the [G] whole song.
The verse, which the intro basically is [E] just A minor, [C] so that doesn't really count.
So you need a verse, which is essentially just a lot of A minor to E minor,
_ [Cm] and [G] a bridge part [E] if you like, two parts.
So the intro _ [Am] _
starts on A minor and it's got that lovely up-down-up. _
_ _ Gotta get that up-down-up strum. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Very quick.
Up-down-up.
_ Up-down-up.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So that's the intro, _ [A] _ and the verse starts, and it's just,
[Gb] the first part of it is just going from A minor [C] to E minor.
[Am] You say [E] you will _ [Em] love me [Am]
if [Em] I have to [Am] go
[Em] _ _ [Am]
You'll be [Em] thinking [Am] _ [Em] of me [Am]
somehow [Em] I [Am] don't know _ _
_ _ The next part [C] is going from C, _ _ _ _ _ C7, _ [F] _ _ _ F, _ [Bb] _
_ and the dreaded B flat.
[Am] And then back to the A minor, E minor, [Em] A minor, E [Am] minor, A [Em] minor, E minor.
And then right at the end you're repeating your intro [Am] again. _ _ _ _ _ _
So let me just do that once through with the lyrics.
_ _ You [Em] say you will love me [Am] if [Em] I have to [Am] _ [Em] go
_ [Am]
You'll be [Em] thinking [Am] _ [Em] of me [Am]
somehow [Em] I [Am] will know
_ [C] _
Someday when I'm lonely, [F] _
wishing you [Bb] were so far [Am] away
Then [Em] I will [Am] _ [Em] remember _ [Am]
the things [Em] we used [Am] to do _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So just that little middle bit [Ab] there, [C] just slowly for you.
Someday, C, when I'm lonely, _ C7, _ [F] wishing you, F, were [Bb] so far away
B [Am] flat, A [Em] minor, E minor, [Am] A [Em] minor, E [Am] minor.
_ [Em] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So that's the intro and first verse, _ and repeating the intro again.
[A] Now verse two is identical [Am] to verse one, except right at the end,
instead of [Gb] coming out to repeat your intro, you're just going to [A] go straight to an A.
So not an A minor, but an A.
So the end of that part goes
Then we [Em] will [Am] remember [Em] _
[Am] the things [Em] we used to [A] do today
_ _ So just straight to an A, not an up, down, up or anything, just an A.
_ _ _ Leading into the bridge, which is A, _ _ [D] _
D, _ _ [B] _ B, _
_ [E] _ _ E, or E7, _ _ or I in fact go E and E7.
_ [A] Then back to A, _
_ [D] _ back to the D again, _ _
[B] back to the B again, then [Bb] a B flat.
_ Nice B flat transition [Am] between the B and the [Db] A minor to E minor [G] again.
[F] So just once slowly with the lyrics.
_ [A] We are just the [D] lucky kind, [B] love to hear you [E] say that love [A] is blind. _
[D] Though we may be blind, [B] love is here to [Bb] stay and that's enough [Am] _ [Em] to [Am] me.
[A] Okay, so E, A, _ _ [D] _ D, _ _ _ [B] _ _ E, B, E, [E] _ _ _ _ E7, [A] A, _ _ [D] D, _ _
_ _ [B] B, E, [Bb] B, E, [Am] A [Em] minor, E [Am] minor, A [Em] minor.
_ [Am] Then repeat the [Em] verse again. _
[E] So exactly the same for verse 3.
Verse 3 also finishes on the A because you are going to go in for another bridge. _
_ Then repeat verse 3 again before your outro, which is just your [Am] intro. _ _ _ _
_ And that's it, that's all I need to show you for the things we said [A] today.
It's just those two parts [Am] put together several times [F]
and you have the song.
_ _ [Fm] The hardest [Eb] part of that is just getting [D] that _ [Am] _ [A] up down up on the A minor [B] and perhaps [Bb] the B flat _ [B] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [D] transitions.
[C] Those barre chords are [G] often tricky.
B flats are never much fun.
_ _ But that's it.
[G] Bye.