When The Beatles Hit America Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em]
Due to a miracle
marketing strategy
Beyond the realms
of reasonable possibility
[Am]It is announced simultaneously
[Em]On radio, compact disc and TV
[G]That John, Paul, George [D]and Ringo
[C]Are going to be reforming as The
[Am]Beatles [Em]in 1993

[Verse 2]
Things skip into action [Em]immediately
George buys the film rights
in a flurry of activity
[Am]Paul says they're not going to play Japan
[Em]Ringo cancels his
three year chat show plan
[D]And John, who was never the quiet one
[C]John stays silent for the time- bei[Em]ng

[Verse 3]
And [Em]the world sing[G]s
When [A]the Beatles Hit America
[Am]When [F]the[C] Beatles Hit America[Am]
[Em]It's going to be sponsored
[G]by...
When [A]the Beatles Hit America
[Am]When[F] the Beatles Hit A[Am]merica[Em]

[Verse 4]
And [Em]lawyers start to draw
up large contracts
Involving sponsorship, t- shirt deals,
Michael Jackson
[Am]They're interviewed on live
TV
About management deals
[Em]and corporate policy
And who's gonna be the manager
of the new [D]Beatles?
The manager is made up of [Am]cloned parts of
Col Tom Parker and [D]Col Sanders
And George says he's not
even going to play
[C]Unless [Em]they bring the Maharishi

[Verse 5]
[Em]Yes, the Fab Four
are interviewed on live TV
But for some reason
they're just the Fab Three
[Am]And a cardboard cut out of John
With [Em]a very strange smile and no shoes on
[D]Which starts a scurrilous
John is Dead rumor
[C]Which Rolling Stone reveals
is just [Am]hype for [Em]the tour
And the world [G]sing

[Verse 6]
s
When [A]the Beatles Hit America
[F]When the Bea[C]tles Hit America[Am]
[Em]It's going to be sponsored by ..[G].
When [A]the Beatles Hit Amer[Am]ica
[F]When the [Am]Beatles Hit Amer[Em]ica
Well, [F]The Who, The Stone

[Verse 7]
[C]s,
Debbie Gib[D]son and Diana Ross
Record [F]a S[C]upergroup single
[D]at great cost
[F]But it's so [C]hard to make the
[D]charts
Because everyone's taken
the new [F]Beatles [C]to heart
[D]And from the time
of the announcement of [Em]the gig
To the gig at Che Stadium
two years later
Every record in the Top Forty
on both sides of the Atlantic
is written by Lennon [Am]McCartney

[Verse 8]
[Em]And finally they get
into the studio
To be co- produced by George
Martin and Jeff Lynne
[Am]And Ringo disappointed
to find that no one
Need[Em]s him anymore except
for the vibe
Because he's [D]been sampled
And he's [C]now part of the Great Drummers
[Am]Sampled [C]ser[Em]ies

[Verse 9]
George gets Monty Python in to [Em]do
the vocals
Linda takes a lot of photos
[Am]For a book that's sold out
[Em]Before she even though of putting it out
[D]And John,
who was never the quiet one
Makes all his press [C]contributions
from his old song[Am]s
In tune, [D]in time and with the
backing [C]track behind him
[Am]And they ask him how it's
been [D]in the studio
[C]he says "It's [G]been a hard
day's night"
[Em]And now one understands him but he
always was the cryptic one
[G]And the world sings

[Verse 10]
When [A]the Beatles Hit America
[F]When the Bea[C]tles Hit[Am] America
[Em]It's going to be sponsored by...
When the Beatles Hit America
When the Beatles Hit America

[Verse 11]
[Em]Finally the record hits the shelves
And it's called The Beatles...
From Ourselves
And for any[Am]one who didn't realize or know
[Em]It sounded a lot like ELO, or ELP,
or XTC, ABC, YMO, BTO
But [D]it's didn't sound much
[A]like [Am]PSI.. Love [Em]You

[Verse 12]
And the day [Em]before the
big gig at Che
The rumor goes round
People saying they're not
going to play
That the whole thing's [Am]been
[F]a big [Am]insurance [F]scam
[Am]To g[Em]et the reissues selling again - CYN
[D]ICAL - but isn't John dead?
Suddenly we're over in the stadium [C]We're

[Verse 13]
[Am]live[D] on CNN, MTV, BBC
[C]And[Am][D]
[C]the[Am][D]
[C]lig[Am]hts[D]
go down and the screaming stops
[C]And you [Am]could hear a pin drop...
[Em][Em]

[Verse 14]
And suddenly they're there
All four of them
And I get scared
As they go into I Saw Her Standing There
[Am]And thunder through
the best set in the world
And [Em]encore with the whole of Sgt Pepper
IN ORDER, and they're Gods
And I'm in HEAVEN...
But on the very [F]last chord

[Verse 15]
of A Day in the Life
The Beatles [C]are beamed off
into outer space
Into a waiting spaceship
Which [D]takes them to a better place
A place where reunions are not
expected of anybody
[Dm]Not [Cm]even...

[Verse 16]
[Em]This is my dream
I bought it
I bought the product
And now I'm happy
[Am]You can believe what you like
It happened
[Em]That's all folks

[Verse 17]
And [Em]the world [G]sings
When [A]the Beatles Hit America
[F]When [C]the Beatles Hit America
[Em]It's going to be sponsored by...[G]
When [A]the Beatles [F]Hit[C]
[Em][G]
[A]America
[C]When the Beatles Hit America

[Outro 1]
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