Classic Guitar Experience: I Saw Her Standing There

I Saw Her Standing There

By Lennon and McCartney-The Beatles 1963

On the Please Please Me Album

Released on 45 with I "Want to Hold Your Hand"

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Riff 1 Riff 2 Riff 3
E7 A7 B7
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Verses

1 E7

Well she was just_ seventeen

A7 E7

You know what I mean_

And the way she looked

Was way beyond compare_

E7 E7 A7 C

So how could'n I dance_ with another, WOOO

E7 B7 E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

riff 4

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2 E7

Well she looked at me_

A7 E7

And I, I could see_

That before too long

I'd fall in love with her_

E7 A7 C

She wouldn't dance with another, WOO

E7 B7 E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

Bridge A7

Well my heart went boom

When I crossed that room_

B7 A7

And I held her hand in mi-eee, __ eee_

riff 4
A7
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Solo
E7
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B7 E7
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A7 E7 B7 E7
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B7
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3 E7

Oh we danced through the night

A7 E7

And we_ held each other tight_

And before too long

E7 B7

I'd fell in love with her_

E7 A7 C

Now I'll never dance with another, WOO

E7 B7 E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

Well my heart went boom_

When I crossed that room_

B7 A7

And I held her hand in mi-eee, __ ee_

Oh we danced through the night

A7 E7

And we_ held each other tight_

And before too long

E7 B7

I fell in love with her_

E7 A7 C

Now I'll never dance with another, WOO

E7 B7 E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

E7 B7 E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_

E7 B7 E7

Oh, when I saw her standing there_____^

Video

I Saw Her Standing There

Beatles

The Beatles performing I Saw Her Standing There on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Song Facts:

I Saw Her Standing There
January 31, 2016 / Gary McKeon

The song was written primarily by Paul McCartney with the original title Seventeen. According to Beatles' biographer Mark Lewisohn McCartney hatched the idea for the song while driving home from a Beatles' gig in Southport, Lancashire on October 22nd 1962. That same night he worked out the chords on an acoustic guitar at the family home of his friend Rory Storm.

Two days later on October 24th McCartney began writing lyrics during a London trip with his then-girlfriend Celia Mortimer, who was seventeen years old at the time.

Lennon helped McCartney finish off the lyrics; suggesting changes here and there. When Paul showed John the early lyrics She was just seventeen, never been a beauty queen, Lennon reportedly burst into laughter and so the words took a different shape.

"We were learning our skill. John would like some of my lines and not others. He liked most of what I did, but there would sometimes be a cringe line, such as, 'She was just seventeen, she'd never been a beauty queen.' John thought, 'Beauty queen? Ugh.' We were thinking of Butlins so we asked ourselves, what should it be? We came up with, 'You know what I mean.' Which was good, because you don't know what I mean." - Paul McCartney
"That's Paul doing his usual good job of producing what George Martin used to call a 'potboiler'. I helped with a couple of the lyrics." - John Lennon

RECORDING

The song was recorded in one day at Abbey Road on February 11th 1963. During this monster session the Beatles recorded 10 of the 14 songs on Please Please Me.

McCartney counted in the track One, two, three, four!, something that is usually cut out of a finished song; but producer George Martin had the idea of keeping it on the track to give the impression it was a live performance.

The count-in comes from take 9 which Martin felt was especially spirited and spliced into take 1. The full version of take 9 was subsequently released on the Free as a Bird single in 1994.

PERSONNEL

Paul McCartney – lead vocals, bass, handclaps
John Lennon – rhythm guitar, harmony vocals, handclaps
George Harrison – lead guitar, handclaps
Ringo Starr – drums, handclaps

RELEASE

I Saw Her Standing There was released on the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me on March 22nd 1963 and as the B-side to the US single I Want to Hold Your Hand. The song peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. (http://www.beatlesbyday.com/)

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This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the
song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

I Saw Her Standing There

I Saw Her Standing There

By Lennon and McCartney-The Beatles 1963

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