The Beatles – Youve Got To Hide Your Love Away (Bass Tab)
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Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney; released on the album "Help!".
This Dylan-influenced song (written mainly by John) is among the few Beatles
compositions in 3/4 time (which is frequent among Bob Dylan's songs by the
way). The song's arrangement is uncommon for an "early" Beatles song; it
contains two acoustic guitars (one of them tuned to dropped-D), a bassline
that contains hardly anything else but "humming" the root notes of the chords
on the downbeats, a low-key percussion track (tambourine, maracas and snare
drum played with drum brushes), and most notably flutes in the ending solo,
played by professional musician John Scott. The song's verses use the same
chord progression as John's earlier (and also Dylan-influenced) song "I'm A
Loser".
In respect of lyrics, "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" fits well to the
line of John's darker, more melancholic compositions of the time ("I'll Be
Back", almost all his songs on the "Beatles For Sale" album, "Ticket To Ride"
and "Help!").
3/4 time
Intro:
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Verse:
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Here I stand head in
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hand, turn my face to the wall,
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If she's
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gone, I can't go on,
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fee - ling two - foot small.
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Verse:
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Eve - ry - where people
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stare each and eve - ry day,
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I can
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see them laugh at me,
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and I hear them say:
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Refrain:
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"Hey, you've got to hide your
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love a - way!"
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"Hey,
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you've got to hide your love a-
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way!"
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Verse:
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How can I e - ven
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try? I can ne- ver
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win. Hea - ring
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them, see - ing them
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in the state I'm in.
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Verse:
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How could she say to
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me: "Love will find a way."?
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Ga - ther
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'round, all you clowns,
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let me hear you say:
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Refrain:
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"Hey, you've got to hide your
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love a - way!"
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"Hey,
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you've got to hide your love a-
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way!"
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