Question for musicians about "I Need You" | Fab forum

Is it my imagination, or is Harrison's electric guitar slightly out of tune in the song "I Need You"?  Maybe that's an unavoidable effect of that reverb he's doing (with John's help at the volume control).  When I try to accompany the song just strumming or fingerpicking with my acoustic guitar, the song seems to mess up my tuning -- I find myself constantly tightening or loosening certain strings, and I can't get it right!

This doesn't happen with other Beatles songs, or with any other songs I like to play along to.

Also, I'm not sure about one of the chords provided by "e-chords" website at one point, at that ingenious turnaround George wrote --

"…and feeling like this, I just can't go on anymore…"

-- but let me ramp up to it:

Oh yes you told me (A to D)

You don't want my lovin' anymore (E to A)

That's when it hurt me (A to D)

And feeling like this,  (E) I

just can't go on any (B7)

more (E)…

[then back to A again]

My problem is with that E chord at "And feeling like this" -- the rest seems to work fine.

Anyone think there's a different chord at that juncture?

Ben Ramon said EDIT: actually, the B7 on "just can't go on any" should be a Bm.

I don't think so, because the singing melody at that point is changing key by incorporating the note D#, which is the major 3rd in B major

I must disagree.  I'll parse the notes word by word, syllable by syllable:

Oh--yes--you--told--me (A to D)

c#--b--a--b--a

You don't want my lovin' anymore (E to A)

a--d--c#--b--c#--b--a--b--c#

That's when it hurt me (A to D)

c#--b--a--b--a

And feeling like this,  (E)

a--d--c#--b--c#

I just can't go on any (B7) more (E)…

a--e--d#--c#--e--d#--c#--e…

Harrison ingeniously does three things here:

1) He's modulating the key from A major to E major and back to A at the end (the key of A includes the D chord; the key of E includes the B chord)

2) when he sings "and feeling like this" he's stressing the d note while playing the E chord, which makes the listener feel like it's E7 and still in the key of A

3) when he rises up to "I just can't go on anymore" he's singing the E note quickly followed by going down and up the D# to C# to D# -- stressing the E note even though he's playing a B7 chord, where the E note would be a "sus4" but here has a slightly dissonant quality that makes the listener feel like they need to resolve it with an E chord in the key of E -- which he does for a fleeting moment at "more" -- which, however, leads back to A (since the E chord can pivot in two roles, either as its own dominant chord, resting on A and B chords, or as the third chord in the key of A that traditionally leads back to A -- which he does here).

P.S.: Elsewhere in the song, when he dips down to the G natural note in A7, he's flirting with a key change in the opposite direction, down to D major.