Come Together | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: Dm :|| x4
Verse 1
| Dm | Dm |
Here come old flat top, he come grooving up slowly.
| Dm | Dm |
He got joo joo eyeball, he one holy roller.
| A5 | A5 |
He got hair down to his knee.
| G5 N.C | N.C |
Got to be a joker he just do what he please.
Instrumental 1
||: Dm :|| x4
Verse 2
| Dm | Dm |
He wear no shoe shine, he got toe jam football.
| Dm | Dm |
He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola.
| A5 | A5 |
He say I know you, you know me.
| G5 N.C | N.C |
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free.
Chorus 1
| Bm A5 | G5 A5 N.C |
Come together, right now, over me
Instrumental 2
||: Dm :|| x4
Verse 3
| Dm | Dm |
He bag production, he got walrus gumboot.
| Dm | Dm |
He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker.
| A5 | A5 |
He got feet down below his knee.
| G5 N.C | N.C |
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Chorus 2
| Bm A5 | G5 A5 N.C |
Come together, right now, over me
Instrumental 3
||: Dm :||
Right!
Solo
| Dm | Dm | Dm | Dm |
||: A5 A6 A5 A6 | A5 A6 A5 A6 :||
| Dm | Dm |
Verse 4
| Dm | Dm |
He roller coaster, he got early warning.
| Dm | Dm |
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter.
| A5 | A5 |
He say, “one and one and one is three”.
| G5 N.C | N.C |
Got to be good-looking ’cause he’s so hard to see.
Chorus 3
| Bm A | G A N.C |
Come together, right now, over me.
Instrumental 4
||: Dm :|| x4
Oh!
Outro
||: Dm :||
||: Come together, yeah :|| x7
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come Together’s chords and progressions
As an 8-bar blues in Dm, we use 5 chords for the A and G, making it ambiguous if they are major or minor.
As the chorus starts with a Bm chord, we have a modal interchange. Instead of being Dm, the Bm relates to D major as the relative minor.
We still use A and G during the chorus – so incredibly simple and genius. It makes the two sections feel as if they belong together. Some may even say, the chords come together in this way!
When The Beatles released Come Together they were the biggest band in the world!
Another U.S. #1 from Liverpool’s pride we find in Come Together. The single was the opening track on their legendary 1969 album Abbey Road.
Not just a success across the pond, Come Together charted in the top 10 the world over.
By 1969, The Beatles was easily the biggest band in the world, and pretty much everything they released was a success, and music historians will add, also very good.
Their lasting legacy is proof that this was no fluke, even though they pushed the envelope in more than one way. For example, what are the lyrics to Come Together all about? There’s definitely some kind of sexual innuendo in there, but the rest, who knows…
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