I think I have around four different Beatles song books, but the one I alwasy go back to is the Little Black Book of Beatles Song for Ukulele (Wise Publications). It has no tab, just lyrics and chords, it has a plastic spine that's slowly breaking apart and it has its ommissions (195 songs, so missing songs are all covers and a single instrumental: Act Naturally, Anna, Baby It's You, Bad Boy, Devil in Her Heart, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby, Flying, Kansas City, Long Tall Sally, Maggie May, Matchbox, Money, Rock 'n Roll Music, Slow Down, Words of Love, and all the additions from the Archaelogy and Live at the BBC sessions).
BUT. It's cheap. It's handy, because it's so small and compact, like a pocket book. It's always in the right key, and if it isn't, it indicated what the right key on the recording is (and that's never too far off). It suggests with chords how to play those typical Beatles riffs. It shows the chords for those typical intros, breaks, outros, solos - not always just the chords for verses or choruses!
In short, it's a handy and quite correct reference guide, full of personal annotations reminding me where to play fills, inversions, descending/ascending lines over chords... and a lot of fun. More so than those big encyclopedic Beatles fakebooks which only serve me as backup.
