She Loves You | Chords + Lyrics
Chorus 1
| Em | Em | A7 | A7 |
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
| C | C | G | G (riff 1) |
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Verse 1
| G | Em | Bm | D7 |
You think you’ve lost your love. Well, I saw her yesterday.
| G | Em | Bm | D7 |
It’s you she’s thinkin’ of, and she told me what to say.
Bridge 1
| G | G | Em | Emadd9 Em |
She says she loves you, and you know that can’t be bad.
| Cm | Cm | D7 | D7 (riff 1) |
Yes, she loves you, and you know you should be glad.
Verse 2
| G | Em | Bm | D7 |
She said you hurt her so, she almost lost her mind.
| G | Em | Bm | D7 |
But now she says she knows, you’re not the hurtin’ kind.
Bridge 2
| G | G | Em | Emadd9 Em |
She says she loves you, and you know that can’t be bad.
| Cm | Cm | D7 | D7 |
Yes, she loves you, and you know you should be glad, ooh.
Chorus 2
| Em | Em | A7 | A7 |
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
| C N.C | D7 | G | G (riff 1) |
With a love like that, you know you should be glad.
Verse 3
| G | Em | Bm | D7 |
You know it’s up to you, I think it’s only fair.
| G | Em | Bm | D7 |
Pride can hurt you too, apologize to her.
Bridge 3
| G | G | Em | Emadd9 Em |
Because she loves you, and you know that can’t be bad.
| Cm | Cm | D7 | D7 |
Yes, she loves you, and you know you should be glad, ooh.
Chorus 4
| Em | Em | A7 | A7 |
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
| C N.C | D7 | G (F# G F#) | Em |
With a love like that, you know you should be glad.
Outro
| Cm N.C | D7 | G (F# G F#) | Em |
With a love like that, you know you should be glad.
| Cm N.C | D7 N.C |2/4 N.C |
With a love like that, you know you should be glad.
|4/4 G | Gmaj7 G6 (G F#) | Em | Emadd9 Em | C Cmaj7 | Cmaj7#11 Cmaj7/E | G | G |
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She Loves You’s chords and progressions
Without a doubt, The Beatles She Loves You has much more sophisticated chords than I first assumed.
Let’s work our way through the arrangement and see how the Fab Four put this one together, starting with the intro chorus.
| Em | Em | A7 | A7 |
| C | C | G | G (riff 1) |
In the key of G, we start on chord VI (Em), although because an A7 appears after this felt like a II – V. When the C chord comes in we do feel like we’ve been on a bit of a harmonic journey already since A to C is close to A – Am.
We finish off on a G chord, which is chord I. Although the bluesy-sounding lick (TAB below) that appears in the last bar uses the G minor pentatonic. Again, breaking the rules.
Perhaps this makes the diatonic verse that follows feel like a release with its somewhat standard I – VI – III – V, like this:
||: G | Em | Bm | D7 :||
Next, the bridge. Here we start going outside the diatonic world of G major again as the chords are now I – VI – IVm – V. The VIm (Cm) is the standout chord. The Em descending chord lick using the madd9 is a nice touch (TAB below).
| G | G | Em | Emadd9 Em |
| Cm | Cm | D | D7 (riff 1) |
Another nice trick is that the same lick we had over a G chord in the chorus, is now happening again in the bridge, although the chord is now a D. bridge 2 and 3 doesn’t have this lick, then we just play a D7.
Finally, the outro is recycling the IVm idea and modifying the chord lick we had over Em to now be over G as well.
On the final line of the outro, the chord names go nuts! Clearly not worked out by name and then played, but by maintaining the same riff, just changing the bass note and therefore chord name. Perhaps you’d be better off with TAB (find this below)!
|4/4 G | Gmaj7 G6 (G F#) | Em | Emadd9 Em |
| C Cmaj7 | Cmaj7#11 Cmaj7/E | G | G |
She Loves You TAB
Let’s take a look at some TAB for the specific licks and chords that are related to She Loves You. If you can see how the intervals make up the theoretical concepts of scales and chord extensions, you are learning from this.
Here’s the first G minor pentatonic lick which is played in chorus 1 & 2 over a G, but also over bridge 1 over a D7.
She Loves You’s signature chord lick that happens in every bridge over an Em looks like this in TAB.
Finally, the outro simply plays that same riff again, but now the chords change and therefore the chord names.
As I mentioned earlier, if you can see the intervals in relation to each bass note, you’ll understand why the chords are named this way.
She Loves You’s tuning is 1Hz sharp of the magical frequency!
When you play along with the original recording, you’ll discover how you will not be in tune with the recording.
Usually, people will dismiss this as; they “didn’t tune up properly”, or, “the tape machine was too slow on playback.
However, When it comes to She Loves You, I have a conspiracy theory. This may not be true, but at least it’s an interesting point and if you hear me out, you’ll be able to play along with the original.
If you tune your guitar to 1hz sharp of the magical frequency of the universe, 432, you will be in perfect tune with the Fab Four. My conspiracy theory is that the meaning of the lyrics is: “she loves you, you just have to take one more step to make this happen”.
Using my online guitar tuner, you can set it to 433, the frequency The Beatles are in when they recorded She Loves You’s chords. Just 1hz away from perfection!
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