Come Together | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: Dm7 :|| x4
Verse 1
| Dm7 | Dm7 |
Here come old flat top, he come grooving up slowly.
| Dm7 | Dm7 |
He got joo joo eyeball, he one holy roller.
| A5 (A6) | A5 (A6) |
He got hair down to his knee.
| G5 | N.C |
Got to be a joker he just do what he please.
Instrumental 1
||: Dm7 :|| x4
Verse 2
He wear no shoe shine, he got toe jam football.
He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola.
He say I know you, you know me.
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free.
Chorus 1
| B5 A5 | G5 A5 N.C |
Come together, right now, over me
Instrumental 2
||: Dm7 :|| x4
Verse 3
He bag production, he got walrus gumboot.
He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker.
He got feet down below his knee.
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Chorus 2
| B5 A5 | G5 A5 N.C |
Come together, right now, over me
Instrumental 3
||: Dm7 :||
Right!
Solo
| Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7 |
||: A5 (A6) | A5 (A6) :||
| Dm7 | Dm7 |
Verse 4
He roller coaster, he got early warning.
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter.
He say, “one and one and one is three”.
Got to be good-looking ’cause he’s so hard to see.
Chorus 3
Come together, right now, over me.
Instrumental 4
||: Dm7 :|| x4
Oh!
Outro
||: Dm7 :||
||: Come together, yeah :|| x7
Come together, yeah.
Come together, yeah.
Come Together Chords: Learn the progressions
Come Together‘s verse is an 8-bar blues in the key of Dm, we use 5 chords for the A5, (A6 for honky-tonk), and G5, making it ambiguous if they are major or minor, like this:
| Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7 | Dm7 |
| A5 (A6) | A5 (A6) | G5 | N.C |
Compare this structure to that of Ain’t No Sunshine’s chords which is in Am and also an 8-bar minor blues.
You’ll need the TAB for how to play Come Together’s verse chords if you drop the E string to a D and incorporate the signature bass line, here’s a link: Come Together – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
As the chorus starts with a B5 chord, we have a modal interchange. Instead of being in the key of Dm, the B5 relates to D major as the relative minor, even though it’s not even minor, how genius is that?!?
Here are Come Together’s chorus chords (the first A5 is on beat 4):
| B5 A5 | G5 A5 N.C |
It’s the 5th of the B chord (the F#) that tells us the Dm chord should have been major (modal interchange), another tune that does this is I Heard It Through The Grapevine.
In this way, the riff and chords come together very nicely indeed.
After you’ve studied the TAB, a simple chord chart is all you need to remember Come Together’s chords on a gig. Here’s one I made for you.
Come Together Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Come Together Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: Come Together iReal Pro.
Using the app, you can change the key although that’s the drop D concept out the window…
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 conclude also very good.
Their lasting legacy proves this was no fluke, they pushed the envelope in many ways. 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…
This stream-of-conscious type of lyric was not common back in 1969, especially not in hits!
Come Together Chords | Related Pages
Come Together | Guitar Lesson + TAB
In this lesson, you get the TAB for how to play Come Together on one acoustic guitar, using a drop D tuning.
| Dm7 | Dm7 |
Here come old flat top, he come grooving up slowly…
Five Similar Tunes | Chords + Lyrics
- Ain’t No Sunshine chords by Bill Withers
- Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) chords by Nancy Sinatra
- I Can’t Stand The Rain chords by Ann Peebles
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine chords by Marvin Gaye
- Take Me To The River chords by Al Green
The Beatles tunes
The Beatles are the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in the history of popular music.
As the leaders of the so-called British Invasion, their catchy Rock ‘N’ Roll-infused Pop songs took America by storm, creating hysteria everywhere they went.
The Beatles on the web
About me | Dan Lundholm
This was a guitar lesson about Come Together chords, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.
Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.
