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Disc Two
Help!
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
We Can Work it Out
Day Tripper
Drive My Car
Norwegian Wood
Nowhere Man
Michelle
In My Life
Girl
Paperback Writer
Eleanor Rigby
Yellow Submarine
"Help!" (Lennon/McCartney)--This song was originally intended to have a slower tempo, but the Beatles
quickened up the tempo, and John later regretted doing that. If any of you have seen A Tribute to John Lennon like from
1990 Bono and U2 do it slow...it's quite cool!
Help! I need somebody
When I was younger so much younger than today
Help me if you can I'm feeling down
And noy my life has changed in oh so many ways
Help me if you can I'm feeling down
When I was younger, so much younger than today,
Help me if you can I'm feeling down
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (Lennon/McCartney)--The first time the Beatles used a musician
other themselves for a recording.
Here I stand head in hand
Everywhere people stare
Hey, You've got to hide your love away
How can I even try
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
"We Can Work it Out" (Lennon/McCartney)--This was released as double A-sided single in the United
Kingdom.
Try to see it my way
We can work it out
Think of what you're saying
Think of what I'm saying we can work it out
We can work it out
Life is very short and there's no time
Try to see it my way,
We can work it out
Life is very short and there's no time
Try to see it my way,
We can work it out
"Day Tripper" (Lennon/McCartney)--A "forced" composition by Lennon and McCartney--a new single was
needed.
Got a good reason for taking the easy way out
It took me so long to find out
She's a big teaser
It took me so long to find out
Tried to please her
She was a day tripper
It took me so long to find out
Day tripper
Day tripper
"Drive My Car" (Lennon/McCartney)--"You can give me golden rings," was an original lyric in this song, but
John Lennon told Paul McCartney that it was "crap" and they agreed to take it out thank goodness.
Asked a girl what she wanted to be
Baby you can drive my car
I told that girl that my prospects were good
Baby you can drive my car
Beep beep
Baby you can drive my car
I told that girl I could start right away
Baby you can drive my car
Beep beep
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (Lennon/McCartney)--Dylan wrote a parody of this song, "4th Time
Around", and later played the song for John in London.
I once had a girl or should I say she once had me,
I sat on a rug biding my time drinking her wine
She told me she worked in the morning
And when I awoke I was alone this bird had flown,
"Nowhere Man" (Lennon/McCartney)--John said that he had spent five hours the morning he wrote this song
trying to write a song, and he finally just laid down on his couch and "Nowhere Man" just came to him.
He's a real nowhere man
Doesn't have a point of view
Nowhere man, please listen, you don't know
He's as blind as he can be,
Nowhere man, don't worry,
Doesn't have a point of view,
Nowhere man, please listen, you don't know
He's a real nowhere man,
"Michelle" (Lennon/McCartney)--What do the French words mean? I believe they mean "words that go
together well."
Michelle ma belle
Michelle ma belle, sont les mots qui vont tres
I love you, I love you, I love you,
Michelle ma belle, sont les mots qui vont tres
I need you, I need you, I need you,
I want you, I want you, I want you,
Michelle ma belle, sont les mots qui vont tres
And I will say the only words I know that you'll understand
"In My Life" (Lennon/McCartney)--Why do John and Paul argue over who wrote this song? Can't one of them
remember?
There are place I remember all my life,
All these places had their moments
But of all these friends and lovers
Thought I know I'll never lose affection
Thought I know I'll never lose affection
"Girl" (Lennon/McCartney)--Ooh! When John takes that big breath...The engineer put treble on it so it sounded
like a huge intake of breat and sounds like a percussion instrument.
Is there anybody going to listen to my story
When I think of all the times
She's the kind of girl who puts you down
Was she told when she was young that pain would
"Paperback Writer" (Lennon/McCartney)--The son of "Day Tripper", according to John Lennon.
Paperback writer,
It's a dirty story of a dirty man
It's a thousand pages, give or take a few,
If you really like it you can have the rights,
"Eleanor Rigby" (Lennon/McCartney)--Paul claims that his singing on this song is not as good as his vocals on
"Yesterday." Nonsense, silly!
Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
"Yellow Submarine" (Lennon/McCartney)--Another one of Paul's babies, that's in John's words--not mine!
In the town where I was born
We all live in a yellow submarine,
And our friends are all aboard,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
As we live a life of ease,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Help! Just not anybody
Help! You know I need someone
Help!
I never need anybody's help in any way
And now these days are gone
I'm not so self assured
Now I find I've changed my mind
I've opened up the doors
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please please help me?
My independence seems to vanish in the haze
But every now and then I feel so insecure
I know that I just need you like I've never
Done before
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please please help me?
I never needed anybody's help in any way
And now these days are gone
I'm not so self assured
Now I find I've changed my mind
I've opened up the doors
And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please please help me?
Help me, help me, oooh
Turn my face to wall
If she's gone I can't go wrong
Feeling two foot small
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them in the state I may
How could she say to me love will find a way
Gather 'round all you clowns let me hear you say
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on
While you see it your way, run the risk of knowing
That our love may soon be gone
We can work it out
You can get it wrong and still you think that
It's all right
And get it straight or say good night
We can work it out
For fussing and fighting my friend
I have always thought that it's a crime
So I will ask you once again
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we might fall apart
Before too long
We can work it out
For fussing and fighting my friend
I have always thought that it's a crime
So I will ask you once again
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we might fall apart
Before too long
We can work it out
Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now
She was a day tripper
On way ticket yeh!
And I found out
She took me half the way there
She's a big teaser
She took me half the way there now
She ways a day tripper
One way ticket yeh!
And I found out
She only played one night stands
Tried to please her
She only played one night stands now
Sunday driver yeh!
And I found out
Day tripper yeh!
Day tripper yeh!
She said, baby, can't you see?
I wanna be famous, a star of the screen,
But you can do something in between
Yes I'm gonna be a star
Baby you can drive my car and maybe I'll love you
And she said baby, it's understood
Working for peanuts is all very fine
But I can show you a better time
Yes I'm gonna be a star
Baby you can drive my car and maybe I'll love you
Beep beep yeh
Yes I'm gonna be a star
Baby you can drive my car and maybe I'll love you
And she said listen baby, I've got something to say
I got no car and it's breaking my heart
But I found a driver and that's a start
Yes I'm gonna be a star
Baby you can drive my car and maybe I'll love you
Beep beep yeh
Beep beep yeh
She showed me her room isn't it good
Norwegian wood?
She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair
We talked until two and then she said
It's time for bed
And started to laugh
I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath
So I lit a fire isn't it good
Norwegian wood?
Sitting in his nowhere land,
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
What you're missing
Nowhere man, the world is at your command.
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere man can you see me at all?
Take your time, don't hurry,
Leave it all till somebody else lends you a hand.
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?
What you're missing,
Nowhere man, the world is at your command.
Sitting in his nowhere land,
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
These are words that go together well
My Michelle
Bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
That's all I want to say,
Until I find a way I will say the only words
I know that you'll understand.
Bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
I need to make you see,
Oh what you mean to me.
Until I do, I'm hoping you will know what I mean.
I love you.
I think you know by now
I'll get to you somehow
Until I do I'm telling you so you'll understand.
Bien ensemble
Tres bien ensemble
My Michelle.
Though some have changed,
Some forever, not for better,
Some have gone and some remain.
With loves and friends I still can recall.
Some are dead and some are living.
In my life I've loved them all.
There is no one compares with you,
And these mem'ries lost their meaning
When I think of love as something new.
For people and things that went before,
I know I'll often stop and think about them,
In my life I'll love you more.
For people and things that went before,
I know I'll often stop and think about them,
In my life I'll love you more.
In my life I'll love you more.
All about the girl who came to stay?
She's the kind of girl you want so much it makes
You sorry,
Still you don't regret a single day,
Ah girl! Girl! Girl!
I've tried so hard to leave her
She will turn to me and start to cry;
And she promises the Earth to me and I believe her.
After all this time I don't know why.
Ah girl! Girl! Girl!
When friends are there,
You feel a fool.
When you say she's looking good, she acts as if
It's understood
She's cool, ooh. Ooh, ooh.
Girl! Girl! Girl!
Lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure?
Ah girl! Girl! Girl!
Dear sir or madam will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It's based on a novel by a man named Lear
And I need a job so I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.
And his clinging wife doesn't understand.
His song is working for the Daily Mail
It's a steady job, but he wants to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.
I'll be writing more in a week or two.
I can make it longer if you like the style,
I can change it 'round and I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.
It could make a million for you overnight.
If you must return it you can send it here,
But I need a break and I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.
Paperback writer
Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Where a wedding has been,
Waits at the window, wearing a face
That she keeps in a jar by the door,
Who is it for?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
That no one will hear.
No one comes near.
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night
When there's nobody there, what does he care?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Ah, look at all the lonely people!
Along with her name.
Nobody came.
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from the hands
As he walks from the grave
No one was saved.
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Lived a man who sailed the sea,
And he told us of life in teh land
Of submarines.
So we sailed up to the sun till we found
The sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves in the our yellow submarine.
Yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine.
Many of more of them live next door:
And the band begins to play.
Yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine.
Every one of us has all we need
Sky of blue and sea of green
In our yellow submarine.
Yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine.
Yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine,
Yellow submarine.