Song: Ticket To Ride
Artist: The Beatles
Album: 'Help!', the fifth studio album as the soundtrack from their 1965 film 'Help!'
URL’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70-WSgZn1MQ;
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp0ku_the-beatles-ticket-to-ride_music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_to_Ride
Tempo: 4|4
Method: Highlighted 12 string accompaniment
Tuning: Standard
Chords: EADGBe
A X02220
Bm7 X24232
E7 020100
F#m 244222
Gmaj7 XX5432
E 022100
D7 XX0212
INTRO:
|A (Asus2) |A (Asus2) |A (Asus2) |A (Asus2) |
Riff 1:(Repeated Lead Arpeggio)
A (Asus2) A (Asus2) A (Asus2) A (Asus2)
e||------0--------0--|-----0--------0---|-----0--------0--|------0--------0---|
B||--------2---0-----|-------2---0------|-------2---0-----|--------2---0------|
G||--2-------2-------|-2-------2--------|-2-------2-------|--2-------2--------|
D||------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
A||------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
E||------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
VERSE 1:
A
I think I'm gonna be sad,
I think it's today, yeah!
The girl that's driving me mad,
Bm7 E7
Is going away.
CHORUS 1:
F#m D7
She's got a ticket to ride,
F#m Gmaj7
She's got a ticket to ride.
F#m E
She's got a ticket to ride,
A
But she don't care.
VERSE 2:
A
She said that living with me,
Is bringing her down, yeah.
For she would never be free,
Bm7 E7
When I was around.
CHORUS 2:
F#m D7
She's got a ticket to ride,
F#m Gmaj7
She's got a ticket to ride.
F#m E
She's got a ticket to ride,
A
But she don't care.
BRIDGE 1:
D7
I don't know why she's riding so high,
She ought to think twice.
E E7
She ought to do right by me,
D7
Before she gets to saying goodbye.
She ought to think twice,
E
She ought to do right by me.
VERSE 3:
A
I think I'm gonna be sad,
I think it's today, yeah!
The girl that's driving me mad,
Bm7 E7
Is going away
CHORUS 3:
F#m D7
Oh, she's got a ticket to ride,
F#m Gmaj7
She's got a ticket to ride.
F#m E
She's got a ticket to ride,
A
But she don't care.
BRIDGE 2:
D7
I don't know why she's riding so high,
She ought to think twice.
E E7
She ought to do right by me,
D7
Before she gets to saying goodbye.
She ought to think twice,
E
She ought to do right by me.
VERSE 4:
A
She said that living with me,
Is bringing her down, yeah.
For she would never be free,
Bm7 E7
When I was around.
CHORUS 4:
F#m D7
Ah, she's got a ticket to ride,
F#m Gmaj7
She's got a ticket to ride.
F#m E
She's got a ticket to ride,
A
But she don't care.
CODA:
A
My baby don't care, my baby don't care,
A
My baby don't care, my baby don't care.(Fade)
A
My baby don't care...
Riff 2: (Picked outro over)
A
e||---------------------|----------|-----------|---------|--------------------||
B||---------------------|-6--------|-7-7-7-7-7-|-7-------|------------------7-||
G||---5-(5)--7--(7)-5---|----5--5--|-7-7-7-7-7-|-7-6---5-|---5-(5)--7-(7)-----||
D||-7-------7---------7-|--------7-|-----------|------7--|-7-------7-------7--||
A||---------------------|----------|-----------|---------|--------------------||
E||---------------------|----------|-----------|---------|--------------------||
[End]
NOTES:
1. This is my personal interpretation of the video and audio evidence:
Verses - Notably, in the LIVE videos John doesn’t change fingering for the lengthy A sequence in the
verses. Then he clearly barres a Bm7 (minus the major interval) in the verses and then the following
E7 can be heard.
Choruses - The contention will be surrounding the choruses re D versus D7 and the Gmaj7 versus Bm.
John clearly doesn’t barre a Bm, but fingers a lengthy Gmaj7.
2. The Lead Riffs have been crossed-checked with numerous sources, from ‘The Beatles - Complete Scores’
to online versions which includes UG’s Tab Pro version.
https://plus.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_beatles/ticket_to_ride_tab_online.html#7385d
3. “…I think the interesting thing was a crazy ending: instead of ending like the previous verse,
we changed the tempo. We picked up one of the lines, 'My baby don't care', but completely altered the
melody. We almost invented the idea of a new bit of a song on the fade-out with this song; it was
something specially written for the fade-out, which was very effective but it was quite cheeky and
we did a fast ending. It was quite radical at the time.
- Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now, Barry Miles. …”
Tabs