What Goes On Chords
by The Beatles
What Goes On by The Beatles is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, B7, A, A7, Bsus, Am, B and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
(Intro:) E B7 E
(Chorus:)
E A
What goes on in your heart? What goes on in your mind?
E A7
You are tearing me apart, when you treat me so unkind,
Bsus-B7 E
What goes on in your mind?
E Am
1. The other day I saw you as I walked along the road, but
E Am
when I saw him with you I could feel my future fold. It's so
B E B7
easy for a girl like you to lie, tell me why...
Chorus: E A
What goes on in your heart? What goes on in your mind?
E A7
You are tearing me apart, when you treat me so unkind,
Bsus-B7 E
What goes on in your mind?
E Am
2. I met you in the morning waiting for the tides of time,
E Am
But now the tide is turning I can see that I was blind. It's so
B E B7
easy for a girl like you to lie, tell me why,
E
what goes on in your heart?
Instrumental: E E A E E E A7 B7 E7
E Am
3. I used to think of no one else but you were just the same.
E Am
You didn't even think of me as someone with a name. Did you mean
B E B7
to break my heart and watch me die, tell me why,
Chorus: E A
What goes on in your heart? What goes on in your mind?
E A7
You are tearing me apart. When you treat me so unkind,
Bsus-B7 E
What goes on in your mind?