Penny Lane Chords & Guitar Lesson

Welcome to my Penny Lane chords and guitar lesson by The Beatles. This is such a fun Beatles song to play! I really enjoyed learning and teaching this one.

A couple of barre chords, but I'll show you in the lesson video how to approach that to make things a little easier.

This song is definitely not for beginners due the large number of chords and the fast chord changes required to play it.

Penny Lane Guitar Chords:

Penny Lane Strumming Patterns:

Strumming Verse:
1 2 + a 3 4 +a
DDDU DDDU

Chorus Strumming:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
D  DU    U DU

Penny Lane Guitar Lesson:

Lesson video coming soon!!!

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Penny Lane Chord Chart:

VERSE:
                   |A                          F#m|                         |Bm                  E|
In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
                   |A                                  F#m|                    Am
of ev'ry head he's had the pleasure to have known
                        Am                                      F                        E7             E
And all the people that come and go stop and say hello
                  |A                F#m|               |Bm              E|
On the corner is a banker with a motor car.
                       |A                        F#m|                      Am
The little children laugh at him behind his back.
                    Am                                    F                      E7                      D ( 1 2 3 stop)
And the banker never wears a mac in the pouring rain, very strange.

CHORUS:
                 G                     Bm                           C         C
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
     G                                Bm                         C                            E (1 2 3 stop)
There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit and meanwhile back

VERSE:
                    |A                        F#m|                       |Bm          E|
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
                      |A                    F#m|                   Am
And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen
                        Am                                   F                    E7                         E
He likes to keep his fire engine clean, it's a clean machine.

INTERLUDE:
|A F#m| |Bm E|

CHORUS:
                 G                     Bm                           C         C
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
     G                                Bm                         C                            E (1 2 3 stop)
There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit and meanwhile back

VERSE:
                            |A                    F#m|                  |Bm             E|
Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout
                         |A                          F#m|                    Am
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
              Am                                                      F                  E7             E
And though she feels as if she's in a play she is anyway

VERSE:
                   |A               F#m|                   |Bm        E|
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer.
                           |A                         F#m|             Am
We see the banker sitting, waiting for a trim
                              Am                       F                        E                   D (1 2 3 stop)
And then the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain, very strange.

CHORUS:
                 G                     Bm                           C         C
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
     G                                Bm                         C                            E (1 2 3 stop)
There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit and meanwhile back

OUTRO:
                A                    C#m                       D      D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
      A                             C#m                       D          D                              A (strum and hold)
There beneath the blue suburban skies.           Penny Lane

This file is the author’s own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It’s intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.

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