Chords + Lyrics | Get Back
Intro
||: A7 :|| x3
| A7 G5 D/A |
Verse 1
||: A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 (A6) :||
Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner, but he knew it couldn’t last.
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona, for some California grass.
Chorus 1
| A7#9 | A7#9 | D7 (D6) | A7 G/B D/A |
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged.
| A7#9 | A7#9 | D7 | A7 (A6) |
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged. Get back Jojo.
Solo
||: A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B D/A :||
Go home.
Chorus 2
| A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 G/B D/A |
Get back, get back, back to where you once belonged.
| A7 | A7 | D7 (D6) | D C/D | G/D C6/D |
Get back, get back, back to where you once belonged, yeah. Oh, get back, Jo.
Solo 2
||: A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 G/B D/A :||
Verse 2
| A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 (A6) |
Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman, but she was another man.
| A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 A6 G/B |
All the girls around her say she’s got it coming, but she gets it while she can.
Chorus 3
| A7#9 | A7#9 | D7 (D6) | A7 G/B D/A |
Oh, get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged.
| A7#9 | A7#9 | D7 (D6) | A7 (A6) |
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged. Get back Loretta, woo, woo.
Solo 3
||: A7 (A6) | A7 (A6) | D7 (D6) | A7 G/B D/A :||
Go home.
Chorus 4
| A7#9 | A7#9 | D7 (D6) | A7 G/B D/A |
Oh, get back, yeah, get back, get back to where you once belonged.
| A7#9 | A7#9 | D7 (D6) | D C/D D | D |
Yeah, get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged. Ooh…
Get Back Backing Tracks | Chord Analysis
Above, you’ll find backing tracks to use when learning Get Back. I’ve used stem-seperation to extract the guitar while keeping the drums, bass, keys, horns, and vocals intact.
After studying the chords and TAB, use my backing tracks to prepare for playing this tune with a band.
Should you want to play along with the original recording instead, you need to tune your guitar sharp to 443Hz. In the backing tracks, I’ve done this job for you by tuning it to 440Hz.
Chord Progressions – What’s Going On?
Get Back mainly moves between chords I – IV, one of the most common progressions in popular music, with the occasional bVIIx (G) added for flavour. Since this is firmly in the key of A, it creates a distinct rock ’n’ roll edge.
Both Lennon and Harrison add various chord extensions, making it tricky to define a single shape. Lennon, panned to the left, plays honky-tonk–style licks reminiscent of Johnny B. Goode, alternating between A7–A6 rather than A5–A6.
Harrison, panned to the right, holds down the rhythm. If you’re the only guitarist in your band, you’ll need to combine their ideas into one cohesive part—a rewarding challenge that I’ve worked out for you further down this guitar lesson using TAB.
With the TAB absorbed, use this chord chart as a guide to the arrangeemnt.
Get Back Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro Download
You can download my Get Back chord chart either as a PDF or in the more flexible iReal Pro format, which lets you adjust the key and arrangement as you wish.
A few small details didn’t make it into the chord chart:
- Chorus 1 doesn’t include the G/B – D/A movement in the final bar.
- Verse 2 adds a G/B at the end, which, to my ears, sounds like a happy accident on the original recording.
- Chorus 3 finishes with an A7#9 instead of the usual G/B – D/A turnaround.
These nuances are easy to note when playing from the full chords and lyrics, but including them in a chord chart would make it overly cluttered—especially when factoring in the recording’s little imperfections!
Get Back | TAB
It was incredibly time-consuming to create a version I was genuinely happy with—transcribing Beatles guitar parts is always about blending two separate guitars into one playable part that feels natural in the real world.
Transcribing and merging two guitar parts into one playable version is time-consuming, but also one of the most rewarding challenges. Once you’ve mastered the TAB, you can start improvising around it.
Intro
To create a sense of movement, the intro has a slightly chaotic feel:
Verse
The verse keeps continuity so it doesn’t distract from the vocal, with variation provided by a honky-tonk pattern:
Chorus
Most choruses use an A7#9 in a D shape rather than the classic Hendrix chord shape. The D7 receives the same rhythmic treatment, alternating between honky-tonk and strumming:
To play this properly, use your index finger twice for the first two notes on the 5th string, then switch to the middle finger to start the chord.
Notice how the first D chord is played in a honky-tonk style, while the second time it’s strummed with 16th notes. It’s this kind of interplay—constantly weaving between Lennon and Harrison’s parts—that makes combining both guitars such a rewarding (and challenging!) process.
The second chorus sticks to honky-tonk, with a D-shaped A chord and the keyboard lick at the end:
Solo
The solo resembles a verse, with a slight modification at the end to transition smoothly into the second chorus:
When you can play all this TAB, put it together using the backing track and chord chart above.
Another #1 from The Beatles
Get Back is another entry in The Beatles’ enormous hit parade.
Released as a single and included on their final studio album, Let It Be, it reached No. 1 in 13 countries and sold about 4.5 million copies worldwide.
Other notable tracks from that album include The Long and Winding Road, Across the Universe, and, of course, the title track Let It Be.
Produced by Phil Spector and released in 1970, Let It Be was the Beatles’ last studio album — study it closely to see how they crafted one of their many chart-topping hits.
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