Tabs
’’’
Ask Me Why
(Lennon/McCartney)
Intro:
[this little lick also used over some 
E MajorE chords during verses]
E MajorE
-|-------------------
-|-------------------
-|-------------------
-|-----9--9----------
-|--7-----------7----
-|-----------7-------
Verse:
E MajorE 
F# minorF#m 
G# minorG#m F# minorF#m E MajorE
I love you ...
E MajorE F# minorF#m G# minorG#m F# minorF#m E MajorE 
G#7G#7
And it’s ...
C# minorC#m 
A augmentedA F# minorF#m 
B7B7
That I I I I ...
E MajorE F# minorF#m G# minorG#m F# minorF#m E MajorE
Now you’re ...
E MajorE F# minorF#m G# minorG#m F# minorF#m E MajorE G#7G#7
And in time ...
C# minorC#m
It’s not...
A augmentedA E MajorE E MajorE+ (e.g., 076550)
But you’re the ...
Middle:
A augmentedA B7B7 E MajorE E MajorE+
I can’t believe it’s happened to me
A augmentedA B7B7 E MajorE B7B7
I can’t conceive of any more misery
Verse:
E MajorE F# minorF#m G# minorG#m F# minorF#m
Ask me why ...[second time jump to ending]
G# minorG#m A augmentedA E MajorE E MajorE+
And I’m ...
[now repeat from the middle]
Ending:
G# minorG#m A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA
-|-----------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------9--9-------------
-|---------------------------------7-----------7-------
-|------------------------------------------7----------
And I’m always ...
E MajorE A augmentedA G# minorG#m
-|----------------------------------------------
-|--------------------------4--4----------------
-|--------------------------------4--4--4--4----
-|-----9--9-----------------------------6--6----
-|--7-----------7-------------------------------
-|-----------7-----------4----------------------
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Beatles Tab by Marc Hertzberg
Digital Equipment Corporation
[email protected]
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Tab Special Notations:
---5/7--- play fret five, slide up to fret seven
---7\5--- play fret seven, slide down to fret five
--8b(9)-- play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach
the pitch of fret nine
--b(9)8-- play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,
unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
---/7---- slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is
undefined, judge by ear)
---15\--- play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
undefined, judge by ear)
---1h3--- play fret one and hammer-on to fret three
---7p5--- play fret seven and pull-off to fret five
-7b(9)r7- play fret seven, bend up to fret nine, release back to fret
seven
--5h7p5-- play fret five, hammer on to fret seven, pull off to fret five
--X------ pick string, but do not press string to fret; left hand mute
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Ask Me Why tab
'Ask me why' was released as the B side to the 'Please please me' single.
Other versions of Ask Me Why
Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Ask me why ukulele by The Beatles
