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Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes

By Irving Berlin

  • C major
  • 4/4
  • 105 BPM
  • 1949
  • Medium
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Left hand Power fifthsRight hand Steady chordsChords the loop the song repeats most

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The accompaniment with every note named, bar by bar: the bar sheet shows each note as a bar on the staff with its letter inside, so you can accompany Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor without reading music. The left hand plays power fifths (lh power fifths) and the right hand steady chords.

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor accompaniment in letter notes

The Dm – D#dim – C – F loop with power fifths in the left hand and steady chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.

Bar 1
Dm
RF4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5
LD2+A2 D3+A3 D3+A3
Bar 2
D#dim
RF#4+A4+D#5 F#4+A4+D#5 F#4+A4+D#5 F#4+A4+D#5
LD#2+A2 D#3+A3 D#3+A3
Bar 3
C
RE4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5
LC3+G3 C4+G4 C4+G4
Bar 4
F
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 C7 A6 F6 C6 A5 Ab5 G5 Gb5
LF2+C3 F3+C4 F3+C4
Bar 5
Dm
RF4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5 F4+A4+D5
LD2+A2 D3+A3 D3+A3
Bar 6
D#dim
RF#4+A4+D#5 F#4+A4+D#5 F#4+A4+D#5 F#4+A4+D#5
LD#2+A2 D#3+A3 D#3+A3
Bar 7
C
RE4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5 E4+G4+C5
LC3+G3 C4+G4 C4+G4
Bar 8
F
RA4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5 A4+C5+F5
LF2+C3 F3+C4 F3+C4

How to read the bar sheet

The player above shows the treble staff (right hand) over the bass staff (left hand). Every note is a bar as long as it sounds, at its place on the staff, with its name inside, and the music scrolls past a line that marks now. The chord names run along the top.

Start with the left hand alone at a slow speed, then the right, then both. When the letters feel easy, try the sheet music.

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Questions about Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor

What are the letter notes for the Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor piano accompaniment?

Bar by bar, both hands: the bar sheet on this page names every note of the accompaniment (C4 is middle C) and plays along. The loop is Dm – D#dim – C – F, so the letters repeat with the chords.

What chords are in Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor?

The loop is Dm – D#dim – C – F (ii – biiio – I – IV) in C major, and the song ends on C – G7 – C.

What key is Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor in?

C major, at about 105 beats a minute in 4/4.

What does the left hand play in Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor?

Power fifths: lh power fifths, a medium pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.

Is Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor easy to play on piano?

It is a medium one: learn the 4 chords as blocks first, then add the left hand, then the right, slowly.

Made from one arrangement of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.