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The last recorded Beatles album and a very fine one. A great end to a great band...well, not really an end, you know...just a...finale,there we go...
The Songs
Come Together
Something
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Oh! Darling
Octopus's Garden
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes The Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Sun King
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
The End
Her Majesty
Come Together (Lennon/McCartney)--Banned by the BBC because...(drumroll for another stupid reason)...the reference to coca-cola!
Shoot me Here come old flat top, he come Shoot me He wear no shoeshine, he got Come together right now over me. Shoot me He bad production, he got Come together right now over me. He roller coaster, he got Come together right now over me. Shoot me Come together, yeah Something (Harrison)--George's first time to have his composition on the A-side of a single! Yay! And can you believe that people think this is a Lennon/McCartney song? What is the world coming to?
Something in the way she moves Somewhere in her smile she knows You're asking me will my love grow Something in the way she knows Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Lennon/McCartney)--Don't be silly and go major in pataphyscial because it doesn't exsist! It was some drinking club...
Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down Back in school again, Maxwell plays the fool again Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down P.C. Thirty one said we've caught a dirty one Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down Oh! Darling (Lennon/McCartney)--Paul came in early every morning to get rid of the clearness of his voice. He wanted it to sound like he'd been singing it on stage all week long.
Oh! Darling Oh! Darling When you told me you didn't need me any more Oh! Darling Believe me darling! Oh! Darling Octopus's Garden (Starkey)--The water sounds were created by Ringo doing what I do sometimes at the dinner table--blowing bubbles in a glass of water! (I'm naughty and childish, I know, but I wanted to teach Sean...)
I'd like to be under the sea I'd like to be under the sea We would be warm below the storm I'd like to be under the sea I'd like to be under the sea I Want You (She's So Heavy) (Lennon/McCartney)--The longest Beatles song, "Revolution 9" does not count--that's just John and Yoko making a bunch of crap like Elvis making a bunch of movies instead of records. Err, that really didn't make sense did it?
I want you, I want you so bad I want you, I want you so bad, babe I want you, I want you so bad, babe I want you, I want you so bad She's so heavy She's so heavy I want you, I want you so bad I want you, I want you so bad, babe She's so�
Here Comes The Sun (Harrison)--Written at Eric Clapton's house.
Here comes the sun, doo doo doo doo Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter Here comes the sun, doo doo doo doo Little darling, the smiles returning to their faces Here comes the sun, doo doo doo doo Sun sun sun here it comes� Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting Here comes the sun, doo doo doo doo Here comes the sun, doo doo doo doo
Because (Lennon/McCartney)--Ooo! Ooo! Intricate harmonies! John got some chords for this song from Yoko playing "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano. He asked her to play them backwards and she did. BOOM! Here's the result.
Ah, because the world is round it turns me on Ah, because the wind is high it blows my mind Ah, love is old love is new Because the sky is blue it makes me cry
You Never Give Me Your Money (Lennon/McCartney)--Ah nothing! In the Sgt. Pepper movie done by the Bee Gees, though, these two people are like singing this song and stealing all the money from the Bee Gees!
You never give me your money I never give you my number Out of college, money spent One sweet dream One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Sun King (Lennon/McCartney)--"Los Paranoias" became "Sun King", which came to John in a dream.
Here comes the Sun King Cuando para mucho mi amore defeleche carafon Mean Mr Mustard (Lennon/McCartney)--Mr. Mustard's sister was not always Pam...she was Shirley first.
Mean Mr. Mustard sleeps in the park His sister Pam works in a shop Polythene Pam (Lennon/McCartney)--Recorded as one song with "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window".
Well, you should see Polythene Pam Get a dose of her in jack boots and kilt She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Lennon/McCartney)--Da dum! Written about a fan who entered Paul house without invitation...
Oh look out She said she'd always been a dancer And so I quit the police department Didn't anybody tell her Golden Slumbers (Lennon/McCartney)--Robert Zemeckis, film director (Come on now, he did Back to the Future!):"The first 8mm films I made when I was thirteen had Beatles music on the soundtracks. Even my first 16mm film at USC used 'Golden Slumbers' on the track."
Once there was a way to get back homewardOnce there was a way to get back home Golden slumbers fill your eyes Once there was a way to get back homeward Carry That Weight (Lennon/McCartney)--All the Beatles sing the chorus.
Boy, you're gonna carry that weight I never give you my pillow Boy, you're gonna carry that weight The End (Lennon/McCartney)--Paul, George, and John all take turns on the guitar solo, one bar at time, and Ringo does his very first drum solo!
Oh yeah, all right Love you, love you� And in the end, the love you take Her Majesty (Lennon/McCartney)--The shortest Beatles song, and written as a tribute to the Queen of England. Paul just played this song at the Queen's Jubilee, too.
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Groovin' up slowly, he got
Joo joo eyeball, he one
Holy roller, he got
Hair down to his knees
Got to be a joker he just do what he please.
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Toe jam football, he got
Monkey finger, he shoot
Coca-cola, he say
I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free.
Shoot me
Shoot me
Walrus gumball, he got
Ono sideboard, he one
Spinal cracker, he got
Feet down below his knee
Holds you in his arms, yeah, you can feel his disease.
Early warning, he got
Muddy water, he one
Mojo filter, he say
One and one and one is three
Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see.
Shoot me
Shoot me
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe, and how.
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe, and how.
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know.
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe, and how.
Science in the home
Late nights all alone with a test-tube, oh oh oh oh
Maxwell Edison majoring in medicine
Calls her on the phone,
"Can I take you out to the pictures Jo, oh oh oh"
But as she's getting ready to go
A knock comes on the door
Upon her head
Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer made sure
She was dead.
Teacher gets annoyed
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant scene
She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away
So he waits behind
Writing fifty times "I must not be so oh oh oh"
But when she turns her back on the boy
He creeps up from behind
Upon her head
Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer made sure
That she was dead.
Maxwell stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures, oh oh oh oh
Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free)
The judge does not agree and he tells them so, oh oh oh
But as the words are leaving his lips
A noise comes from behind
Upon his head
Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer made sure
He was dead.
Silver hammer man.
Please believe me
I'll never do you no harm
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm.
If you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don't ever leave me alone.
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me any more
Well you know I nearly broke down and died.
If you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you
Don't ever leave me alone.
When you told me you didn't need me any more
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me you didn't need me any more
Well you know I nearly broke down and died.
Please believe me
I'll never let you down (Oh believe me darling)
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm
In an octopus's garden in the shade
He'd let us in, know where we've been
In his octopus's garden in the shade
I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus's garden with me
In an octopus's garden in the shade.
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting out heads on the sea beds
In an octopus's garden near a cave.
We would sing and dance around
Because we know we can't be found.
In an octopus's garden in the shade.
We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves
Oh what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy and they're safe
We would be so happy, you and me
No one there to tell us what to do.
In an octopus's garden with you
In an octopus's garden with you
In an octopus's garden with you
I want you, I want you so bad,
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
Heavy, heavy, heavy
She's so heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
I want you, I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad, yeah
Here comes the sun
And I say, it's alright.
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
And I say, it's alright.
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
And I say, it's alright.
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun
And I say, it's alright.
Here comes the sun
It's alright
It's alright.
Because the world is round
Because the wind is high
Love is old, love is you
Because the sky is blue
Ah�
You only give me your funny papers
And in the middle of negotiations
You break down
I only give you my situation
And in the middle of investigation
I break down.
See no future, pay no rent
All the money's gone, nowhere to go
Any jobber got the sack
Monday morning turning back
Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go
But oh that magic feeling--nowhere to go
Oh that magic feeling --nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Pick up the bags and get in the limousine
Soon we'll be away from here
Step on the gas and wipe that tear away
One sweet dream came true today
Came true today
Came true today, yes it did.
All good children go to heaven.
Here comes the Sun King
Everybody's laughing
Everybody's happy
Here comes the Sun King
Mundo paparazzi mi amore chicaferdi parasol
Questo obbligato tanta mucho que canite carousel.
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy him some clothes
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose
Such a mean old man
Such a mean old man
She never stops, she's a go-getter
Takes him out to look at the queen
Only place that he's ever been
Always shouts out something obscene
Such a dirty old man
Dirty old man.
She's so good-looking but she looks like a man
Well, you should see her in drag
Dressed in a polythene bag
Yes, you should see Polythene Pam
Yeah, yeah, yeah
She's killer diller when she's dressed to the hilt
She's the kind of a girl that makes the news of the world
Yes you could say she was exceptionally built
Yeah, yeah, yeah
She came in through the bathroom window
Protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
Didn't anybody see
Sunday's on the phone to Monday
Tuesday's on the phone to me
She worked at fifteen clubs a day
And though she thought I knew the answer
Well, I knew, but I could not say
And got myself a steady job
And though she tried her best to help me
She could steal, but she could not rob
Didn't anybody see
Sunday's on the phone to Monday
Tuesday's on the phone to me, oh yeah.
Sleep pretty darling, do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby
Smiles await you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling, do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby
Once there was a way to get back home
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
I only send you my invitations
And in the middle of the celebrations
I break down
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you're gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Are you're gonna be in my dreams tonight?
Is equal to the love you make.
But she doesn't have a lot to say
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
But she changes from day to day
I wanna tell her that I love her a lot
But I gotta get a belly full of wine
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm gonna make her mine, yeah
Someday I'm gonna make her mine.