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Eleanor Rigby

Alice Cooper

MetalAdvanced for beginners5 chords

How to play it

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

C×
Em
C6Diagram coming soon
Em7
Cm7Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Intro:  
C                          Em     /\/\/\/\/\ C                          Em   /\/\/\/\/\  
Ah, look at all the lonely people,           Ah, look at all the lonely people.  
 
                                                               x02213     
Em                                                                C6               Em   
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been, lives in a dream.  
Em                                                                   C6              Em  
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door, who is it for?  
 
 
022030     022020            032000  
Em7            Em6                 Cm7              Em  
All the lonely people,       where do they all come from?  
Em7            Em6                 Cm7            Em  
All the lonely people,       where do they all belong?  
 
 
Em                                                             C6                 Em  
Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear, no one comes near.  
Em                                                                      C6                  Em  
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there, what does he care?  
 
 
Em7            Em6                  Cm7              Em  
All the lonely people,        where do they all come from?  
Em7            Em6                  Cm7           Em  
All the lonely people,        where do they all belong?  
 
 
C                          Em    /\/\/\/\/\ C                          Em   /\/\/\/\/\  
Ah, look at all the lonely people,          Ah, look at all the lonely people.  
 
 
Em                                                             C6           Em  
Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name, nobody came.  
Em                                                                  C6                Em  
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave, no one was saved.  
 
 
Em7            Em6                  Cm7              Em  
All the lonely people,        where do they all come from?  
Em7            Em6                  Cm7           Em  
All the lonely people,        where do they all belong? 
          
 

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Chord set

C · Em · C6 · Em7 · Cm7

Practice tip

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