Please Please Me
                             (Lennon/McCartney)
                                The Beatles
                            Please Please Me (1963)


Intro (doubled by harmonica):
     
|--------------------------------------------------------------0---|
|------------5--4---------------------5--4---------------------0---|
|------------------6--4---6--4--------------6--4---6--4--------1---|
|-------------------------------6------------------------6-----2---|
|---/2---------------------------------------------------------2---|
|-------0------------------------------------------------------0---|


 E                                  A    E    G  A  B         riff1:
   Last night I said these words to my girl               |-------------|
 E                        A   E  (riff 1)                 |-------------|
   I know you never even try girl                         |-------------|
                                                          |-----2-2-----|
                                                          |---------2-2-|
                                                          |-0-0---------|
     A                 F#m 
Come on (come on) Come on (come on)
 C#m               A
Come on (come on) Come on (come on)
          E          A        B         E (riff 2)      riff 2 (doubled by harmonica):
Please please me oh yeah like I please you.              E           A      B      E  
                                                        |------------------------0-|
                                                        |-5--4-------------------0-|
 E                                A   E    G  A  B      |-------6--4---6--4------1-|
   You don't need me to show the way love               |--------------------6---2-|
 E                          A   E   (riff 1)            |------------------------2-|
   Why do I always have to say love                     |------------------------0-|
 

     A                 F#m 
Come on (come on) Come on (come on)                    riff 3
 C#m               A                                (doubled by harmonica):
Come on (come on) Come on (come on)                    E
          E          A        B         E  (riff 3)   |-----------------|
Please please me oh yeah like I please you.           |----5--4---------|
                                                      |----------6--4---|
                                                      |-----------------|
                                                      |-----------------|
A                                                     |-----------------|
I don't want to sound complaining
 B                                  E
But you know there's always rain in my heart
A    
I do all the pleasing with you
 B                           E
It's so hard to reason with you
     A       B               E  (riff 2)
Oh yeah, why do you make me blue?




 E                                  A    E    G  A  B
   Last night I said these words to my girl
 E                        A    E  (riff 1)
   I know you never even try girl


     A                 F#m 
Come on (come on) Come on (come on)
 C#m               A
Come on (come on) Come on (come on)
          E          A        B         E (riff 2 twice)
Please please me oh yeah like I please you.  


    E                    A        B         E
(Please please, yea) oh yeah like I please you.
                            A        B         E   G   C   B   E
(Please please, yea) me oh yeah like I please you.



transcribed by Chris Sears
cts@mail.utexas.edu