Working Class Hero Chords & Guitar Lesson
Welcome to my Working Class chord chart by John Lennon. Working Class hero is a great song because it only mostly focuses on two chords - Lots of Am and G. There is the occasional D chord that comes in as well. There’s not a lot of songs that only use two chords and are great for absolute beginners.
Two chord songs on my site:
Horse With No Name
Eleanor Rigby
This song introduces you to 3/4 time or what is referred to as Waltz time because you feel like you are waltzing. You will get a lot of work on G an Am on this one. So let’s check it out.
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Working Class Hero Guitar Chords:
Working Class Hero Strumming Patterns:
Strumming:
Am
1 2 + 3 +
D D U D U
If you listen to the song, you will here lots of little bass notes and hammer-ons coming in on the Am,
John is lifting his second finger before the down strum on the one and hammering. The bass note is the 5th string on the Am chord.
Am Am
1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 +
B D UDU H D U DU
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Working Class Hero Guitar Lesson:
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Working Class Hero Chord Chart:
Verse:
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
As soon as you're born they make you feel small.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
By giving you no time instead of it all.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
’Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Am G D Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
’Till you’re so f****** crazy you can’t follow their rules
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Am G D Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Verse:
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty odd years.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
Then they expect you to pick a career.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
When you can’t really function you’re so full of fear.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Am G D Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Verse:
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
And you think you’re so clever and classless an free.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
But you’re still f****** peasants as far as I can see.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Am G D Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Verse:
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
There’s room at the top they are telling you still.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
If you want to be like the folks on the hill.
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Am G D Am Am Am Am
A working class hero is something to be.
Outro:
Am Am G Am Am Am Am
If you want to be a hero well just follow me.
Am Am G Am Am
If you want to be a hero well just follow me.
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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