When The Beatles Hit America chords by
John Wesley Harding

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Key: G minor

Verse 1
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Due to a miracle
marketing strategy
Beyond the realms
of reasonable possibility
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It  is announced simultaneously
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On radio, compact disc and TV
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That John, Paul, George and Ringo
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Are going to be reforming as The
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Beatles in  1993

Verse 2
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Things skip into action immediately
George buys the film rights
in a flurry of activity
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Paul says they're not going to play Japan
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Ringo cancels his
three year chat show plan
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And John, who was never the quiet one
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John stays silent for the time- being

Verse 3
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And the world sings
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When the Beatles Hit America
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When the Beatles Hit America
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It's going to be sponsored
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by...
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When the Beatles Hit America
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When the Beatles Hit America

Verse 4
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And lawyers start to draw
up large contracts
Involving sponsorship, t- shirt deals,
Michael Jackson
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They're interviewed on live
TV
About management deals
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and corporate policy
And who's gonna be the manager
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of the new Beatles?
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The manager is made up of cloned parts of
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Col Tom Parker and Col Sanders
And George says he's not
even going to play
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Unless they bring the Maharishi

Verse 5
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Yes, the Fab Four
are interviewed on live TV
But for some reason
they're just the Fab Three
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And a cardboard cut out of John
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With a very strange smile and no shoes on
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Which starts a scurrilous
John is Dead rumor
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Which Rolling Stone reveals
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is just hype for the tour
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And the world sing

Verse 6
s
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When the Beatles Hit America
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When the Beatles Hit America
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It's going to be sponsored by ...
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When the Beatles Hit America
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Well, The Who, The Stone

Verse 7
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s,
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Debbie Gibson and Diana Ross
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Record a  Supergroup single
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at great cost
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But it's so hard to make the
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charts
Because everyone's taken
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the new Beatles to heart
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And from the time
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of the announcement of the gig
To the gig at Che Stadium
two years later
Every record in the Top Forty
on both sides of the Atlantic
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is written by Lennon McCartney

Verse 8
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And finally they get
into the studio
To be co- produced by George
Martin and Jeff Lynne
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And Ringo disappointed
to find that no one
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Needs him anymore except
for the vibe
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Because he's been sampled
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And he's now part of the Great Drummers
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Sampled series

Verse 9
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George gets Monty Python in to do
the vocals
Linda takes a lot of photos
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For a book that's sold out
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Before she even though of putting it out
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And John,
who was never the quiet one
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Makes all his press contributions
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from his old songs
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In tune, in time and with the
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backing track behind him
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And they ask him how it's
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been in the studio
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he says "It's been a hard
day's night"
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And now one understands him but he
always was the cryptic one
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And  the world sings

Verse 10
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When the Beatles Hit America
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When the Beatles Hit America
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It's going to be sponsored by...
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When the Beatles Hit America

Verse 11
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Finally the record hits the shelves
And it's called The Beatles...
From Ourselves
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And for anyone who didn't realize or know
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It  sounded a lot like ELO, or ELP,
or XTC, ABC, YMO, BTO
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But it's didn't sound much
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like PSI.. Love You

Verse 12
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And the day before the
big gig at Che
The rumor goes round
People saying they're not
going to play
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That the whole thing's been
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a big insurance scam
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To  get the reissues selling again - CYN
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ICAL - but isn't John dead?
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Suddenly we're over in the stadium We're

Verse 13
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live on CNN, MTV, BBC
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And
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the
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lights
go down and the screaming stops
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And you could hear a pin drop...
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Verse 14
And suddenly they're there
All four of them
And I get scared
As they go into I Saw Her Standing There
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And thunder through
the best set in the world
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And encore with the whole of Sgt Pepper
IN ORDER, and they're Gods
And I'm in HEAVEN...
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But on the very last chord

Verse 15
of A Day in the Life
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The Beatles are beamed off
into outer space
Into a waiting spaceship
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Which takes them to a better place
A place where reunions are not
expected of anybody
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Not even...

Verse 16
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This is my dream
I bought it
I bought the product
And now I'm happy
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You can believe what you like
It happened
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That's all folks

Verse 17
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And the world sings
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When the Beatles Hit America
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When the Beatles Hit America
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It's going to be sponsored by...
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When the Beatles Hit
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America
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When the Beatles Hit America

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