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When The Beatles Hit America easy guitar chords by
John Wesley Harding
John Wesley Harding

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Verse 1
Em


Due to a miracle

marketing strategy

Beyond the realms

of reasonable possibility
Am

It is announced simultaneously
Em

On radio, compact disc and TV
G
D

That John, Paul, George and Ringo
C

Are going to be reforming as The
Am
Em

Beatles in 1993
Verse 2
Em

Things skip into action immediately

George buys the film rights

in a flurry of activity
Am

Paul says they're not going to play Japan
Em

Ringo cancels his

three year chat show plan
D

And John, who was never the quiet one
C
Em

John stays silent for the time- being
Verse 3
Em
G

And the world sings
A

When the Beatles Hit America
Am
F
C
Am

When the Beatles Hit America
Em

It's going to be sponsored
G

by...
A

When the Beatles Hit America
Am
F
Am
Em

When the Beatles Hit America
Verse 4
Em

And lawyers start to draw

up large contracts

Involving sponsorship, t- shirt deals,

Michael Jackson
Am

They're interviewed on live

TV

About management deals
Em

and corporate policy

And who's gonna be the manager
D

of the new Beatles?
Am

The manager is made up of cloned parts of
D

Col Tom Parker and Col Sanders

And George says he's not

even going to play
C
Em

Unless they bring the Maharishi
Verse 5
Em

Yes, the Fab Four

are interviewed on live TV

But for some reason

they're just the Fab Three
Am

And a cardboard cut out of John
Em

With a very strange smile and no shoes on
D

Which starts a scurrilous

John is Dead rumor
C

Which Rolling Stone reveals
Am
Em

is just hype for the tour
G
And the world sing
Verse 6

s
A

When the Beatles Hit America
F
C
Am

When the Beatles Hit America
Em
G

It's going to be sponsored by ...
A
Am

When the Beatles Hit America
F
Am
Em

When the Beatles Hit America
F
Well, The Who, The Stone
Verse 7
C

s,
D

Debbie Gibson and Diana Ross
F
C

Record a Supergroup single
D

at great cost
F
C

But it's so hard to make the
D

charts

Because everyone's taken
F
C

the new Beatles to heart
D

And from the time
Em

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
Am

is written by Lennon McCartney
Verse 8
Em

And finally they get

into the studio

To be co- produced by George

Martin and Jeff Lynne
Am

And Ringo disappointed

to find that no one
Em

Needs him anymore except

for the vibe
D

Because he's been sampled
C

And he's now part of the Great Drummers
Am
C
Em

Sampled series
Verse 9
Em

George gets Monty Python in to do

the vocals

Linda takes a lot of photos
Am

For a book that's sold out
Em

Before she even though of putting it out
D

And John,

who was never the quiet one
C

Makes all his press contributions
Am

from his old songs
D

In tune, in time and with the
C

backing track behind him
Am

And they ask him how it's
D

been in the studio
C
G

he says "It's been a hard

day's night"
Em

And now one understands him but he

always was the cryptic one
G
And the world sings
Verse 10

A

When the Beatles Hit America
F
C
Am

When the Beatles Hit America
Em

It's going to be sponsored by...


When the Beatles Hit America


When the Beatles Hit America
Verse 11
Em

Finally the record hits the shelves

And it's called The Beatles...

From Ourselves
Am

And for anyone who didn't realize or know
Em

It sounded a lot like ELO, or ELP,

or XTC, ABC, YMO, BTO
D

But it's didn't sound much
A
Am
Em

like PSI.. Love You
Verse 12
Em

And the day before the

big gig at Che

The rumor goes round

People saying they're not

going to play
Am

That the whole thing's been
F
Am
F

a big insurance scam
Am
Em

To get the reissues selling again - CYN
D

ICAL - but isn't John dead?
C
Suddenly we're over in the stadium We're
Verse 13

Am
D

live on CNN, MTV, BBC
C
Am
D

And
C
Am
D

the
C
Am
D

lights

go down and the screaming stops
C
Am

And you could hear a pin drop...
Em
Em
Verse 14


And suddenly they're there

All four of them

And I get scared

As they go into I Saw Her Standing There
Am

And thunder through

the best set in the world
Em

And encore with the whole of Sgt Pepper

IN ORDER, and they're Gods

And I'm in HEAVEN...
F
But on the very last chord
Verse 15


of A Day in the Life
C

The Beatles are beamed off

into outer space

Into a waiting spaceship
D

Which takes them to a better place

A place where reunions are not

expected of anybody
Dm
Cm

Not even...
Verse 16
Em

This is my dream

I bought it

I bought the product

And now I'm happy
Am

You can believe what you like

It happened
Em

That's all folks
Verse 17
Em
G

And the world sings
A

When the Beatles Hit America
F
C

When the Beatles Hit America
Em
G

It's going to be sponsored by...
A
F
C

When the Beatles Hit
Em
G

A

America
C

When the Beatles Hit America
Outro 1
Em



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