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Eleanor Rigby

Barbra Streisand

RockMedium for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
Em
C6Diagram coming soon
Em7

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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C                      Em                  
Ah! look at all the lonely people 
  C                     Em 
Ah! look at all the lonely people 
                                            C6 
Eleanor Ribgy, picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been 
          Em 
Lives in a dream  
                                                                               C6                                         
Waits at the window wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door 
             Em   
Who is it for 
Em7          Em6         C                Em  
All the lonely people where do they all come from 
Em7         Em6            C           Em                 
All the lonely people where do they   all belong 
                                                                                                  C 
Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear 
                           Em 
No one comes near 
                                                                                                              C                                      
Look at him working darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there 
                          Em 
What does he care 
Em7               Em6            C                              Em  
All the lonely people where do  they all come  from 
Em7          Em6                         C              Em 
All the lonely people where do they all belong 
 C                     Em                  
Ah! look at all the lonely people  
C                      Em 
Ah! look at all the lonely people  
                                                                                                 C 
Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name  
                  Em 
Nobody came      
                                                           C 
Father McKenzie Wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks  from the grave   
Em                
No one was saved     
C                    Em 
Ah! look at all the lonely people  
Em7             Em6              C                           Em 
All the lonely people where do they all come  from 
C                      Em 
Ah! look at all the lonely people 
Em7             Em6               C                     Em 
All the lonely people where do they all belong 
          
 

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Chord set

C · Em · C6 · Em7

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.