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The Beatles - Penny Lane |
Recorded: 29, 30 December
1966, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 17 January 1967
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Geoff Emerick
Released: 17 February 1967
(UK), 13 February 1967 (US)
Paul McCartney: vocals, piano, bass, harmonium,
tambourine, percussion
John
Lennon: backing vocals, piano, guitar, congas, handclaps
George Harrison: backing vocals, guitar
Ringo
Starr: drums, handbell
George Martin: piano
Ray Swinfield, P Goody, Manny Winters, Dennis Walton: flutes, piccolos
David Mason, Leon Calvert, Freddy Clayton, Bert Courtley, Duncan Campbell:
trumpets, flugelhorn
Dick Morgan, Mike Winfield: oboes, cor anglais
Frank Clarke: double bass
Available on:
Magical Mystery Tour
1
Anthology
2
Lyrics:
In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say hello
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
The little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a mack in the pouring rain
Very strange
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back in
Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen
He likes to keep his fire engine clean
It's a clean machine
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A four of fish and finger pies
In summer meanwhile back
Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway
Penny Lane, the barber shaves another customer
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim
And the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain
Very strange
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
Penny Lane
Sources:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/penny-lane-lyrics-beatles.html