Free As A Bird tab by The Beatles

Here is the first of the two new Beatles songs from the Anthology series.
The other tab already in the archive is a little hard to follow, so I
figured out the intro for myself and wrote them down. This song features
some ingenious slide work from George which isn¹t really very hard to
learn. The hard part (for me) is getting the tone and sustain that
he gets, especially on the wide vibrato on the first note of the solo.
Anyway, just have fun with this great song! - Zach


                Free As A Bird
            Words and Music by John Lennon

        A: x02220  F#m: 244222  Dm: xx0231  E: 022100
      G: 320003  C: x32010  Esus4: 022200  Fmaj7: x32210
      F#m7b5: 202210  A/G: 3x2220  Am: x02210  Fm: 133111


Intro w/slide

  A   F#m    Dm   E    A   F#m    Dm   E
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|----------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
|-/5-------------|----------5\1/2-|----------------|-------------------|
|----------------|----------------|-/2-------------|--------(4\)2/7-\5-|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|

  A   F#m    Dm   G     C   Am    Esus4   E
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|------5-8\5/6/8(\)5--------------|----------------|
|-/2-------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|


Verse 1

A F#m Dm E   A  F#m
Free   as ...
Dm    E     A    F#m
It's the ...
Dm  G  C  Am  Esus4 E
Free as ...


A  F#m Dm E    A  F#m
Home,     home ...
Dm   E   A     F#m
Like a homing ...
Dm  G    C  Am  Esus4 E
As a bird ...


Bridge 1

Fmaj7         F#m7b5
What ever happened ...
G           A     A/G
Can we really ...
Fmaj7             F#m7b5
Where did we ...
G         E
It always ...


Verse 1

A F#m Dm E   A  F#m
Free   as...
Dm    E     A    F#m
It's the ...
Dm  G  C  Am  Esus4 E
Free as a ...


A  F#m Dm E    A  F#m
Home,     home ...
Dm   E   A     F#m
Like a homing ...
Dm  G    C  Am  Esus4 E
As a bird ...

Bridge 2

Fmaj7         F#m7b5
What ever ...
G        E
Always made ...

Guitar Solo w/slide

  C   Am    Fm    G    C   Am    Fm    G
   ~~~~~~~~~~~             ~~~~~~~~~~~
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|-/17------------|--------18/20---|-20\17----------|-13/16\15--8/---|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

 C     Am    Fm    G   A   F#m ...
                    ~~~~~
|-12--12/17\12-----|-8/11\10---3--|---9-------------
|------------------|--------------|-----------------
|------------------|--------------|-/9--------------
|------------------|--------------|-----------------
|------------------|--------------|-----------------
|------------------|--------------|-----------------
                    Free...

A F#m Dm E   A  F#m
Free   as a ...
Dm    E      A   F#m
It's the next ...


Coda w/slide

 Dm   G    A   F#m   Dm   E    A   F#m
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|-/5-----(1)/2--|---------------|-----5------/7-|
|---------------|---------------|-/2------------|---------------|
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
  Free  as ...Free as ...

                          w/o slide
 Dm   E    A   F#m   Dm   G     A
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
|--/1-----------|--/5----(1)/2--|---------------|--2------------||
|---------------|---------------|-/2------------|--2------------||
|---------------|---------------|---------------|--2------------||
|---------------|---------------|---------------|--0------------||
|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||
   Free as a  ...