You've Got To Hide Your Love Away bass

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
The Beatles
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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E|3----------------------|3----------------------|


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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E|3----------------------|3----------------------|-----------------------|
 "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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A|-----------------------|5----------------------|-----------------------|
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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 (solo):
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