Penny Lane -- The Beatles

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  The 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  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  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.                     (sing365)

Paul McCartney was sitting at a bus shelter waiting for John Lennon to meet him on Penny Lane, a street near their houses. While sitting there Paul jotted down the things he saw, including a barber's shop with pictures of its clients and a nurse selling poppies for Remembrance Day (November 11th or the day World War 1 officially ended). He later turned these into the song we now know.                                                      (songfacts)


               

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