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The JOHN LENNON Collection Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) pase 50 Dear Yoko page 54 Give Peace A Chance pase 4 I'm Losing You page 44 Imagine page 38 Instant Karma page 7 Jealous Guy page 30 Love page 21 Mind Games pase 24 #9 Dream page 16 Power To The People page 10 (Just Like) Starting Over page 32 Watching The Wheels pase 59 Whatever Gets You Thru The Night page 13 Woman pase 41 JEALOUS GUY Words and Music by JOHN LENNON 1 was dreaming of the past I_ was feel-ing in - se-cure (Whistle)- I wastrying to catch your eyes — ae j I be-gan— to lose-con-trol I was shiv—er-ing— in-side and my heart.was beating you might not love-me a—ny 1 was swal -low-ing my pain 1 began —to lose con- trol I was shiv—er-iny in - sid Coppigt © 1971 NORTHERN SONGS UTED ‘A gis for the Unted State of Arerea Msi ond the Phlippines conc by MRACLEN MUSK, INC €/0 ATV MUSIC CORP, 6855 Set Bi, Lo Agee, Ca 08 ABR Reserved I'm sorry c D7sust G x = es = T did-n't mean —to hurt — BD Em G6 [L23. Iimjusta jea-lous guy wateh out ~ == a iS SS e & qa fey SaaS = ——= Uimjurts jontus gy look out—babe — I'm justa jealous guy a (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER Words and Music by JOHN LEN’ Ar Fim/A Fe FE AS. a = — ¥ geth-er is so pre-cious 2 oe — is still though our spe-cial, AT D/A Dm/A A oo 9 EE Eat te 3 let'stake a chance and fly a - way some -where a 3s 1960 Lenore Music ° International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved Moderately, with a strong beat A 9 & = SS been too long since we took the time. No one's toblame, 1 knowtime flies. so day we used to make Why can't we "be mak-in'love nice and see spread Ir-l be Ir-l be a - gain my love. just just ° - ver, ver, Why don't we = like like start - ing start - ing start - ing start -ing Ey-try ® take a trip some-where far We'll be to ~ geth - like we used to D.S.H (lyric I) al Coda® DFE B/GE ¥0 2 d ear-ly days.— We have grown. a is still spe-cial, chance and— fly a - way. Repeat (vocal ad lib) and fade A I'M LOSING YOU Moderately Am Sad Words and Music by JOHN LENN Here in some stran-ger's room,— late in the af ter ~ noon,_. ing here—— at all?__ Ain't no doubt a - bout it: ing you £6 1900, 181 Lenore Music Inemational Copyright Secured AIRighs Reserved 45 Some-how the wires_ have crossed. = Com-mu-ni-ca - tion's lost... Can't e -ven get — you on the tel-e - phone. — ing you, — what to do, I feel you slip -ping a -way. 1 feel you slip-ping a - way. ing you. a You say you're not get-ting © -nough. But I remind you of all that bad stuff, 3 So what the hell am I sup-posed to do? __. Just put a Band-Aid on it and stop the bleed ~~ ing, now, stop the bleed ing now? I know I hort — you But hell, that was way_ back when, _ do you still have to car-ry that cross ?_ DEAR YOKO Moderately bright A ° Words and Music by JOHN LENNON: E- ven af-ter all these years, E-ven if i's just one night, 1 =, miss you when you're not wish you were here, my miss you and it don't feel wish you were here. to - © 190, 79 Lenono Music International Copyright Secured Al Rights Reserved 55 Hg if it's just a day, miss you when you're a way. if it's just one hour, wilt just like a fad - ed flow- 1 wish you were here Ain't noth-ing in the world like our + a 3 G 2000 I'm nev-er, ev-er, ev - er, ev - er, nev-er, ev-er,ev-er,ev-er, ev-er gon-na let you go. 87 jad B-ven when I'm miles at sea and no-where is the place to, be, B-ven af-ter all this time, T miss you like the sun don't shine your spir-it's watch-ing o - ver me, With - out you, I'm a one - track mind, Yo - ko, E-ven when I watch T y, there's a hole where you're sup-posed to be. There's no - bod-y ly -ing next to me,_ D.S.¥al Coda$ Coda a Fe G 900 Af-ter all ig real-ly said and done, __ _ eas of us are real-ly The — god-dess real-ly smiled up - on — our love, dear — Yo- ko, MIND GAMES Words and Music by JOHN LENNON == SSS Mourne slow plant = ing” seeds playing the mi : nd ger Fe} FS a: an © 1973 ohn Lennon International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved We all been play ingthote i i miné games for - ev = or fome Kind~ a dru = id cider t= ing. the veil Ir ata Ls RL 1 | | 4 [ and you know that and you know thar for gota let it you got-ca ler it a 7 “8 Ga So keep on play [og those Fe SSS — faith in the fu = te doing the sf fe => = can’t beat oa those mil-lons of | > ome ots ab-sol- ure else where nthe stones of your m+ as put Ing. their ‘oul power tothe Kar- mic e D/c S, G6/B mind yeah were play - fag those =i games foe - wheel eep on play ing those. = mind games for - th 4 | 3 FF = — st _# a, ra SS BSS SS . eo moviet = ag om tn aes in space and in rae tek 1 want you to make love, 0 ae a you've heard it be ~ fore WATCHING THE WHEELS ‘Moderately, in 2 c F ae 2 (a Words and Music by JOHN LENNON Peo-ple say I'm Peo-ple say I'm Peo-ple ask -ing =i do-in' what I'm do dream-in' my life a - way. lost. in con - fu - sion. 181951 Lenone Manic Imternatonsl Copyith Secures. Al RightsReserved Well, they give me all Well, they give me all Well, I tell them there's. no to save me from de-signed to en - on - ly 80 - When 1 Well, they E (a _———— 6 = tell ‘em that I'm do - shake their heads and they — look Gs Se "Sure - ly you're— not "Don't you miss_— the tell them there's— no x00 a long = er play_ the game, *——_________ Jong - er on the ball." sit-ting here do - ing time. 3000 can’ I'm Just sit-tin' here watch-in' the wheels go round-and round. I real-ly love to watch.them roll. G/E Am Am/G 900, oo long-er rid - ing on the mer - fae fin To Coda \ oO 9h Coda ¢ a D.S.% (no vepeats)al Coda 0 #9 DREAM Words and Music by JOHN LEN! Moderate Rack Ballad a Was it just @ dream? 3 seemed se ve-ty teal © 1874, 1975 Lenono Music Imernavonal Copyright Secured Al Rights Reserved ” Fmaiy G7 , _fs om ‘Took a walk down the street Nseemedso real___to me. ead dail ot om through the heat whis - pered trees | thought 1 could It 3 call out my name I as it__start-ed to rain Two spir «its danc-ihg so 35 3 atempo was male in the aie 1 be-leve, 3 tf —— theough the mir - for go round and round. 1 thoucht 1 coule Io I Em? touch ing my I) AT, i i DS. al Coda “3: P sot The sprit dance was un 3 fold ~ ing Some thing warm; sud-den a Repeat and ta Ant__Bow-a Ka = Wa--pousé - se, pous -0é BEAUTIFUL BOY (Darling Boy) Moderately D6 ot Words and Music by JOHN LENNON, Close your eyes, _ have no fear.__ go to sleep, say a lit-tle prayer. mmrreter’s gone. He's on the run. and you daddy's here. Ev-'ry day, in ev - ‘ry way, it's get-ting bet-ter and bet-ter. = © 1900, 7981 Lonane Music Invernaional Copy Secured AT Rights Resonved —s3 m3 Beau -ti~ ful, beau -ti - ful, beau - ti- ful, ms Fe m3 SFiS Beau-ti-ful, beau-ti- ful, beau-ti-ful, beau-ti-ful boy, Be-fore you eS roe can hard -ly wait to see youcome of age, —— But I guess we'll both ‘Cause it's a way 1 go, aherd row t hoc. — Yes,it's a be-fore you m3 ms Life is what hap-pens to you while you're bus-y mak-ing oth-er T~§— p—-3s— plans. Beau- ti - ful, beau-ti- ful, beau-ti-ful, beatiful boy. — qt pia Free, D6 = EE 3 — 3 —=3— Dar - ling, dar - ling, dar - ling, dar-ling Sean, m3— p—3—, 3s INSTANT KARMA Words and Music by JOHN LENNON 2 bara per minute in-stant Kar_ma'sgowna get you In-stant Karma's gonna get You In-stant Kar—ma'sgonna get You gon-na lmock you right.on the head Youbot-tor gotyouneelf to-gewther Eon-na look you right inthe ace — Youbet ter get youraeltfo-ge-ther dar-lint Fon-na knock you off your feet et-ter Fec“ogrnise your brothers pretty soon you're gonna be dead — What in the worldyou think-Ing of — join the hhu-man race How in the worldyou gon ~ na see—— ev ory oneyou meet — Why in theworldarewe here Ry © A D Bm Laugh-ing in the face of love, — what onearth_youtryin'to do, TaugreinPattods fie Se! Who SueartnalyoutRinkyou are, Cooma 6 1970 NORTHERN SONGS UTED au ng tr me urnes States ot nance Mesea on te Puce corto by CRMC NC 2 2 Annis CO. Sst mae ea Les Argos oa S003 camera you— crightyouare. Wellwe all shine ‘well a= SZ. 1 upto you — si-per'star yeah Til the ‘moon —and thestars—and the sun. —— = D Po cova ce Z- Fz Re all Come on, and on and on and ‘on and_ on, A Fam A Fém 23 3 is Zz ~, Wal we onand on—— Wellwe onand on —— Wellwe 3 ED (Keep repeating till fade) He de like the moon—and the stars — andthe sim, Well_we GIVE PEACE A CHANCE Words and Music by JOHN LENNON and PAUL McCARTNEY Two onc two three four Ev-ry-bo-dy’s talleing a-bout Bag - is-m Shag - is-m, Drag - is-m,Mad - is-m, Rag - is-m,Tag - is-m, Min-iseters) Sin-is-ters, | Bansis-ters and Can-is-ters, ’ Bish - ops and Fish - ops Rev-o ~ luction,Ev- 0 = lu-tion, Mas-ti ~caction,Fla - gel -la-tion, Reg -la-tions, In-tog- ra-tions John and Yo-ko, Timmy Lea-ry,"Rose - ma-ry, Tommy Smothers Bob-by Dy-lan, Tommy Cooper, This - is-m,That? - is-m, Is-nt it the most Rab - bis and Pop - eyes Bye bye bye byes Med- i -ta-tions, U-nited Na-tions, Con-grat a -la-tions De-rek Tay-lor,Nor-man Mail-er, Alan’ Ginsberg,Ha-re Krish-na, Ha-re, Ha-re Krishna RL x Copyright © 1969 NORTHERN SONGS UMTED ‘Al gh forte Une States of America, Meco and the Plippines consoled by [MAGLEN MUSIC INC c/0 ATV MIC CORP, 6955 Sure Bc Lon Angeles, Co. 9008S ‘ALS Reserved Abis Ab7. 12 times Abt AbIS Ab7 Db Shouts, Cheers, ete Till fade WOMAN Moderately slow Words and Music by JOHN LENNON eb Eb Ab/eb Bb bsust Eb Ab/Eb fae” ae reper aera sai = T can hard-ly ex-press my mixed e- mo-tions at my I know you un = der-stand the lit- tle child in- D Bbsus4 Bb A> nee mae a ge iG thought-less-ness. side the man, AC = ter all, I'm for - ev-er in your debt. Please_ze-mem - ber,my life is in your hands. 1 will try to my in-ner feel-ings and hold me close 10 How-ev-er dis-tant, don't _ em Rigs Reena Fm Bbsuss Bb Ab Fm? < i thank -ful- ness_, show-ing me mean-ing of suc - keep usa ~ part. Af-ter all, writ- ten in the well, well —_—_~ E Fem? (cae bo » 3 | Woman, a ae ae . I lptsty == — 4 eae — F F Fim boss BA Ft? lust! cunt cree i! tips I nev-er meant to cause you fae” eee SSS Repeat and fade Emaj? eS now and for - ev-er. WHATEVER GETS YOU THRU THE NIGHT Moderate beat tempo lie Words and Music by JOHN LENNON eu Petpet a plateeE Bo OU Ee eer errr 1 — = =| EER? ==] 2 Fy ae = Don'tneed a sword to cut thru’ flow right. Don't need watch to waste your time, Don'tneed a gun to blow your mind, What ov ser gets you thru’ your ten tome, come on Ge a ace, PS no rept font if 4 cet Instrumental section | What-ev-er gets you to the IMAGINE Words and Music by JOHN LENNON Moderately | | tmag.- ine there's no heavy - en ise sy if you trys Acbove us only sky—— Im-ag-ine all the peo Copisht © 1971 NORTHERN SONGS LATED ‘Al its forthe United Sites of Ameren, Mex ante Pilpines conte by MACLEN SIG NC c/o ATV MUSK CORP, 6255 unde Bd, LOS Anges, C2, 90078 ‘Al Bs Reserved Dm? R/C o/s 7 Ho maj? Imag-ine there’s.no coun - tries it is-n't hard 1 do Imag-ine no posses. - sions Twonderif__ you can noth-ing to. kill no need for greed and no re = li =gion Imagine all 2 broth-er-hood of Imag -ine all F/C G c/a Gr |, emer 9 deanier but 'mnot the on - ly one. a Thope some day. you'll join us = and the world will be as one. live as one 8 LOVE on Words and Music by JOHN LENNON real is Love;_ touch is Love: free is Love; Comytett 1971 NORTHERN SONGS LINTED sd rors ore United Sates of Ameren Mece> 2° De PUEDES COME DES Br ACENMESC NC CO ATV MISC CORP, 5 SuruetBwe. ot Anges C2 BODES A Rg tse theo = aS — ——- Love Is feel ing, Love is reach ~ ing, 1 Love is liv = ing, Fim Em? ATsust GAT Ateuaa AT ea a fae = ee = a a pat + i Love is want ~ ing to be loved. Kove is “ask ~ ing to be loved Love 8. need ~ ing to be loved Tove is touch, D.S.% al Code @ oe ip POWER TO THE PEOPLE Sf tae pet tannats Words and Music by JOHN LENNON 9 — 7 — SS Pow-er tothe peo- Pow-er to the —peo——ple, » » FF * [FF (Marching feet) CCopynsht © 1971 NORTHERN SONGS UTED 4th time To Coda ® Pow-er to the You A. mil-tion 1 gon-na D Em DD omajt D say you want a rev - ou tion, we'd bet-ter get on—right a - way_. work = ers work —in' forno. thing, you bet-ter givethem what they real- ly own ask you com—rades and brothers, how do you treatyour old wo- man back home Welllot's get. on your feet, end of the street,— sing-ing We gotta put you down when we come in -to town, sing-ing = She's got-ta be her - self—— so she can give us help, — sing-ing Oh well the peo Pow-er to the peo - ple right on. — Repeat till fade. BEAUTIFUL BOY (DARLING BOY) DEAR YOKO. GIVE PEACE A CHANCE FM LOSING YOU IMAGINE INSTANT KARMA JEALOUS GUY LOVE MIND GAMES #9 DREAM POWER TO THE PEOPLE (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER WATCHING THE WHEELS. WHATEVER GETS YOU THRU THE NIGHT WOMAN

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