"A Sign from Me to You"

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I kept thinking about "A Sign from Me to You" last night, so I learned the chords and even had the opportunity to-day to do the vocals.  I should note that I don't have the strumming pattern the same, some of the vocal phrasing might not match, and I guessed at some of the backing vocals.  This also starts kind of suddenly because there isn't much lead-time in the track.  This is the second of four songs on the album that all run into each other.

The chords on this are really weird.  The first change is A minor to A major.  And then there's D minor, so there's a chromatic phrase (C to C# to D) in the first three chords.  Also there's a change from Bm to F at the end of the choruses.  Aside from an E, the verses are in A minor, and aside from that F, the choruses are in D major.  There's an-other section (for the introduction and under the guitar solos), but I think that changes keys too much to describe.

This morning, I remembered that the Zombies performed the Beatles' "From Me to You" earlier in their career, so now I feel that that connection is slightly more tenable.

This is an-other new one in the catalogue.