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Guitar: Fool on the Hill (The) (Including lyrics and chords)

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Channel: threelegsoman · 2018 · Education

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"The Fool On The Hill" is a song from The Beatles written by Paul McCartney.
According to Wikipedia: 
The song's lyrics describe the titular "fool", a solitary figure who is not understood by others, but is actually wise. McCartney said the song relates to someone like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi:

'Fool on the Hill' was mine and I think I was writing about someone like Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool. Because of his giggle he wasn't taken too seriously ... I was sitting at the piano at my father's house in Liverpool hitting a D 6th chord, and I made up 'Fool on the Hill.
The song involves alternations of D major and D minor in a similar manner to Cole Porter's alternations of C minor and C major in "Night and Day".
It took me a while to get the hang of this one, possibly because of the D6 start.
I do not play the flute and anyway don't have the euipment to double track, so I whistle where they used a flute and other instruments.


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