Simple Beatles Guitar Songs
For The Acoustic

Across The Universe appeared on two albums. The first was No One's Gonna Change Our World in 1969 and the a year later on the Let It Be album.

David Bowie also covered this song in 1975. All of The Beatles around this period of 67-68 were into Transcendental Meditation at the time. Lennon said in an interview in 1970 that he thought the song was the most poetic he'd written.

Anna was written and recorded first by Arthur Alexander in 1962. The Beatles decided to do a cover of the song for their 1963 debut album Please Please Me.

Anna was never released as a single but they did perform it live in the early concert days with John Lennon singing the lead vocals.

Come Together is a track from the 1969 album Abbey Road and was released as a single with the song Something. This number made it into the top 10 in the US and Australia and hit #4 in the UK.

Several artists including Tina Turner, Michael Jackson and Aerosmith covered this song. Timothy Leary, a psychologist and proponent in the use of the drug LSD, was running for Governor of California and wanted to use the slogan Come Together And Join The Party. He asked Lennon to come up with a song, and Come Together was the result.

Parts of Chuck Berry's song You Can't Catch Me were also used as inspiration for some lyrics in this song. McCartney noticed the similarity and suggested they slow the songs tempo, which they did.  

Don't Let Me Down was recorded in 1969 during the Let It Be sessions, but it was omitted from the Let It Be album by Phil Spector when it was released in 1970.

Instead it became the B-Side to Get Back, and released on the alternative mix of the Let It Be album which was called Let It Be ... Naked. Don't Let Me Down did chart in the USA at #35.

Drive My Car is a track on the 1965 album Rubber Soul with Paul McCartney singing lead with Harrison and Lennon on backup.

Drive My Car was never released in the UK as a single but was released in the US, reaching #27 and driving the Rubber Soul album to #1.the Black Crowes, The Donnas and

The Cars have all covered this great tune.

Eleanor Rigby is from the bands 1966 album "Revolver". The song was a #1 hit in Australia, Belgium, Canada and New Zealand.

McCartney had one verse written and then after a meeting with the band, others contributed various ideas to help complete the song.

This one has down strokes with riffs blended in for rhythm in standard tuning. C, Em, Em7, Em6 and Cmaj7 are the chords required here.

Get Back was another single release before it ended up on an album. The single came out in 1969 and then was included on the Let It Be album of 1970, which was released after The Beatle broke up. Billy Preston was also on this album playing keyboard.

There were a few firsts with this song, one of them giving credit to another artist (Preston) and the first single released in true stereo. The song was a monster #1 hit in many countries. This song was also the only song that made it to #1 immediately upon release in the UK.

Hey Jude was first released as single, along with revolution as the B-side in 1968. Hey Jude was a #1 hit all over the world virtually and Revolution hit #1 in two countries also.

The in 1970 a compilation album was put together called Hey Jude and of course this song was on that album. The Apple label had just been formed in 1968 and this was their first single from the label. This was also the first Beatles song to be recorded on 8 track equipment.

John Lennon had left his wife around this period and hooked up with Yoko Ono, so the song lyrics was initially Hey Jules, referring to Julian Lennon, John's young song at the time. But it eventually got changed to Hey Jude.

Honey Don't is an old Carl Perkins song which was released by him in 1956. The Beatles covered the song for their 1964 album Beatles For Sale.

Ringo didn't sing many Beatles song but he took the lead on this one The song was never released by The Beatles as a single.

I Feel Fine was one of those early songs that allowed feedback into the recording and was released in Nov of 1964. This was a 31 in several countries.

The song was on various albums but in the US it was released on the Beatles 65 album.

For rhythm her play a root up in standard tuning and some lead required. down up down up down up and repeat with some riffs. The chords here are D, C7, G, D7 and a Bm.

I've Just Seen A Face was mainly written by Paul McCartney will some help from John Lennon and appears on their 1965 album "Help".

The song was recorded in a single take and has been covered by artists such as Johnny Cash, The Flaming Lips and The Smithereens. This song was never released as a single in the US or the UK.

When I'm 64 is from the "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" album of 1967 and was written way back when Paul McCartney was about 14. It was one of the first songs he wrote.

The song also appeared in the animated film "Yellow Submarine" but the song was never a single release to my knowledge.

I play this one in standard tuning with a capo 1st fret and using a root down root up down up rhythm pattern. Some lead with the chords C, Dm, G7, G, C7, F, Fm, A7, D7, Am, E7 and E.