Silent Homecoming

---------------------------------------------------------------------------                Silent Homecoming - The Beatles --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Sorrells Pickard From: “Beaucoups of Blues” (1970) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Capo 6th fret Play: D Key: G#/Ab For more bottom end: transpose +5 and play with capo 1st fret (but that’s not the way the guitar sounds on the recording) For chords in original key transpose +6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] / [Verse]   D       D7sus4   D5      D7sus4   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e|7-------8-------|10------8-------| B|8-------6-------|8-------6-------| G|7-------7-------|7-------7-------| D|0-------0-------|0-------0-------| A|----------------|----------------| E|----------------|----------------| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHORDS transpose: -             transpose: +5 capo: 6th fret           capo: 1st fret D      x-x-0-2-3-2       G       3-x-0-0-0-3 D7sus4 x-x-0-2-1-3       G7sus4  3-x-0-0-1-1 D5     x-x-0-2-3-5       G5      3-x-0-0-3-3 A      x-0-2-2-2-0       D       x-x-0-2-3-2 A7     x-0-2-2-2-3       D7      x-x-0-2-1-2 F      1-3-3-2-1-1       Bb      x-1-3-3-3-1 Fsus4  1-3-3-3-1-1       Bbsus4  x-1-3-3-4-1 Asus4  x-0-2-2-3-0       Dsus4   x-x-0-2-3-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | D D7sus4 | D5 D7sus4 | | D D7sus4 | D5 D7sus4 | [Verse 1] D             D7sus4          | D5  D7sus4 | Patiently she stares down the runway   D                  D7sus4      | D5  D7sus4 | Today’s the day that he is coming home D           D7sus4          | D5      D7sus4 |  Seems like he’s been gone a life time And a life time is a long time to be gone    [Bridge] But there are songs that need singing And there are things that must be done F         Fsus4                   F        Fsus4  There are thoughts that still need thinking F             Fsus4           |  Asus4  |  A  |  And there are wars that must be won      (break) [Verse 2] D             D7sus4             D5         D7sus4 He was just a boy when they sent for him     D                D7sus4     D5    D7sus4 And overnight turned him into a man D        D7sus4           | D5      D7sus4 |  Proudly he had served his country In a war he didn’t seem to understand   [Bridge] The flag still waves his war is over He’ll never have to kill again F          Fsus4               F     Fsus4  And as she waits she thinks it over    F                Fsus4        |  Asus4  |  A  | Is winning worth the prize we pay to win?    (break) [Verse 3] D                  D7sus4          | D5      D7sus4 |  Her thoughts keep wandering to his childhood      D            D7sus4              | D5      D7sus4 | When all his hand grenades were merely toys      D               D7sus4          | D5      D7sus4 | And "war" was just a game that he was playing With plastic guns like other little boys    [Bridge] And ev’ry day when play was over He’d put his little toys away F            Fsus4            F       Fsus4  And she’d be standing waiting for him F             Fsus4       |  Asus4  |  A  |  The way she’s waiting here today      (break) [Verse 4] D       D7sus4                | D5      D7sus4 |  As the plane stops she starts thinking      D                 D7sus4     | D5      D7sus4 | Will he still look the way he did before? D                   D7sus4           | D5      D7sus4 |  Or will his eyes reflect the pain of killing Like most young men when they come home from war?    [Bridge] These last few minutes seem like hours She tries her best not to cry F                Fsus4                F       Fsus4  But there’s that hearse filled up with flowers F      Fsus4       |  Asus4  |  A  |  Did he really have to die? [Outro] | D D7sus4 | D5 D7sus4 | No no no no - no no no no no | D D7sus4 | D5 D7sus4 | No no no - no no (repeat and fade)