Chords + Lyrics | She Loves You
Chorus 1
| Em | Em | A7 | A7 |
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
| C | C | G | G (riff) |
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.
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) |
Yes, she loves you, and you know you should be glad.
Verse 2
She said you hurt her so, she almost lost her mind.
But now she says she knows, you’re not the hurtin’ kind.
Bridge 2
She says she loves you, and you know that can’t be bad.
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) |
With a love like that, you know you should be glad.
Verse 3
You know it’s up to you, I think it’s only fair.
Pride can hurt you too, apologize to her.
Bridge 3
Because she loves you, and you know that can’t be bad.
Yes, she loves you, and you know you should be glad, ooh.
Chorus 3
| 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 Backing Tracks | Chord Analysis
Above, you’ll find backing tracks to use when learning She Loves You. I’ve used stem separation 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 down to 434Hz. In the backing tracks, I’ve done this job for you by tuning it to 440Hz.
Chord Progressions – What’s Going On?
She Loves You features more sophisticated chords than I initially assumed when I first sat down to transcribe this classic.
What I discovered was a perfect blend of blues and pop, with minor pentatonic licks and chord variations like the IVm, paired with standard diatonic pop progressions.
Chorus
Let’s work our way through the arrangement and see how the Fab Four put this one together, starting with the intro chorus. Here are the chords, with Roman numerals:
| Em (VI) | Em | A7 (IIx) | A7 |
| C | C (IV) | G (I) | G (riff 1) |
In the key of G, we start on chord VI (Em). However, because an A7 follows, it feels like a II – V progression.
When the C chord comes in, we feel as though we’ve been on a bit of a harmonic journey, since moving from A to C is similar to moving from A to Am.
We finish off on a G chord, which is chord I. The bluesy-sounding lick in the last bar, which you can learn with TAB if you keep scrolling, uses the G minor pentatonic, once again breaking the rules!
Verse
Perhaps this makes the diatonic verse that follows feel like a release, with its diatonic chords:
||: G (I) | Em (VI) | Bm (III) | D7 (V) :||
Bridge
Next, let’s take a look at the bridge chords of She Loves You. Here, we step outside the world of G major once again. The standout chord is the IVm (Cm).
The descending Em chord lick using the add9 is a nice touch as well. Here are all the chords:
| G (I) | G | Em (VI) | Emadd9 Em |
| Cm (IVm) | Cm | D (V) | D7 (riff 1) |
Another clever trick is that the same lick we played over a G chord in the chorus is now applied to the D chord in the bridge. However, in bridges 2 and 3, this lick is absent, and it’s just a D7 chord.
Outro
Finally, the outro recycles the IVm idea and modifies the chord lick we had over Em, now applying it to G. It looks like this:
| Cm (IVm) N.C | D7 (V) | G (I) | Em (VI) |
| Cm N.C | D7 N.C |2/4 N.C |
In the final line of the outro, the chord names get a bit chaotic! It’s clear that it wasn’t worked out by naming the chords first and then playing them, but rather by maintaining the same riff while changing the bass note, and therefore the chord name. Here’s how it looks:
| G (I) | Gmaj7 G6 | Em (VI) | Emadd9 Em |
| C (IV) Cmaj7 | Cmaj7#11 Cmaj7/E | G (I) | G |
When you have absorbed the TAB, keep this chord chart handy—it will help you navigate the various sections and structure as you jam with the backing tracks.
She Loves You Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro Download
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: She Loves You chord chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: She Loves You iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key.
She Loves You | TAB
Let’s take a look at some TAB for the specific licks in She Loves You. If you can recognise how the intervals relate to scales and chord extensions, you’re really learning from this.
Here’s the first G minor pentatonic lick, played in choruses 1 and 2 over G, and again in bridge 1 over D7:
The signature chord lick that appears 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, so do the chord names.
As mentioned earlier, if you can see the intervals in relation to each bass note, you’ll understand why the chords are labelled this way. In practice, this means that all you need to remember the TAB is the chord chart.
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