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Rhythm 10.0
Melody 9.7
Instruments 9.7
Lyrics 9.8
Vocal 10.0
This song has been reviewed 13 times. Overall score for this song, 9.8.
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The Beatles - Penny Lane Lyrics

Song details
TitlePenny Lane
ArtistThe Beatles
AlbumMagical Mystery Tour (1967) , Track 9 ,
1967-1970 (Blue Album) (1973) , Track 2 ,
Anthology (Part 2) (1996) , Track 29 ,
1 (2000) , Track 3 Disc 2,
Magical Mystery Tour (Remastered) (2009) , Track 9
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Song lyrics
In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
of every head he's had the pleasure to have known.
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say hello.

On the corner is a banker with a motorcar,
and little children laugh at him behind his back.
And the banker never wears a mac
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 the roundabout
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway.

In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer,
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim.
And then 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.
lyrics submitted by Lizzi
lyrics corrected by Shira




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16-04-2004 19:01sikknez is offline sikknez 


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i like it, but i cant listen to it over and over again coz it kinda gets annoying after awhile
17-04-2004 14:47Stones91 is offline Stones91 

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It's almost my favourit-song i LOVE it! BEATLES ROCKS!
11-07-2004 08:28meltorment05 is offline meltorment05 

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i think i read in a book that was about songs and how writers came up w/ them that eleanor rigby was a real person, but john just saw her tombstone. and if i recall correctly they had a picture of the grave in england. but who knows if this is true b/c it wasn't substantiated by a beatle. i've also heard that it is another "clue" about paul's death, and it was going to be father mccartney not father mackenzie, but john didn't want to be too obvious.
12-07-2004 16:30EdGarRoxMySox11 is offline EdGarRoxMySox11 

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This was a great Beatle hit. I love the lyrics.
30-07-2004 16:02walrus198 is offline walrus198 

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Great lyrics, along with strawberry fields, this was sorta the launching pad into their later years.
15-08-2004 12:08MissBeatle is offline MissBeatle 

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The Beatles rock
This song is good, but it's not one of my favorites, though. But The Beatles' "worst" are better than any other group's best anyway
05-10-2004 11:19frida_sueca is offline frida_sueca 

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"She feels as if she's in a play.. she is anyway". One of the most psychedelic lyrics by the Beatles.. Many think that Lennon was the experimental one, but McCartney was a lot more interested in that sort of thing, for instance avantgarde. John didn't even like it to begin with and only started when he met Yoko. Paul stood for most tracks on Pepper, which is considered the Beatles' most psychedelic record.

Anyway, Penny Lane is a great song! It always cheers me up because it really feels like the Beatles.
16-11-2004 23:27Shinra is offline Shinra 

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god..I want to live on Penny Lane ^_^ funky street, with funky people
16-01-2005 21:54littlelegs is offline littlelegs 

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boyo! mint song my dad loves the beatles and its rubbed off on us lot
25-02-2005 05:19Beatlesrockhard is offline Beatlesrockhard 

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actally if you watch beatles anthology dvds it explains all that. Paul was actally nervous about taking LSD and didnt start until about five months after all the others had taking it. As for smoking weed they were all very much into that. On Sgt. Peppers John manily wrote all the so called acid music. Like strawberry fields and lucy in the sky with diamonds. (even tho the beatles say they are not drug related they have the sound of it) On the DVDs it says they didnt write much music when they were on drugs because it all ended up sounding bad. John was heavly into drugs right before he met Yoko often coming to the beatles and saying he was jesus christ. Anyone who is a big beatles fan should watch the antholgy DVDs. [offtopic]
09-04-2005 08:57l_mccartney is offline l_mccartney 

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upbeat, happyish song pretty good, beatles done better though.
11-04-2005 16:39crashintome74 is offline crashintome74 

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An interesting and catchy song. The Beatles have some of the weirdest, good songs ever created.

Penny lane is in my ear
And in my eye
01-05-2005 18:41Mibbish is offline Mibbish 

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This is one of the best Beatles songs.. But we were forced to sing it over and over again at school, so I got kind of tired of it. Still; It's a good song, no doubt!
16-06-2005 05:19chicagofan91 is offline chicagofan91 

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My favorite Beatles song. It kind of remindes me of the neighborhood I used to live in.
30-07-2005 18:53Kinsdragon1 is offline Kinsdragon1 

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the trumpet in this song is fantastic.
14-11-2005 19:22winters is offline winters 

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Its a very,very nice song that I really thinks is part of Beatles music.
24-11-2005 20:31offspring13666 is offline offspring13666 

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Great Song!! I love the beatles...

And to all you who think the Beatles songs are about drugs they arnt.. Penny Lane is written about a street in London, Strawberry Fields Forever is about an orphanage that in England (They started a fund that kept it running up until a few months ago), Lucy in the sky with Diamonds is about a poster that John Lennon's son drew about a girl named Lucy in his class... The Beatles worte their songs when they were not high, The stuff they wrote when they were high came out crappy to them
24-11-2005 20:53stresspaniek is offline stresspaniek 

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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds... stands for LSD. Come on it was the 70's what do you expect. Ofcourse it's about drugs, it is so obvious!
24-11-2005 20:543x5comfwheel is offline 3x5comfwheel 

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Um. No. Not about drugs. Get your facts right.
28-11-2005 22:28winters is offline winters 

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um..I am quite sure Penny Lane was in Liverpool.............
08-02-2006 13:50MERI_AN is offline MERI_AN 

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hey I love this song! it cheers me up a lot it`s amazing and a lot of fun!


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