the Beatles

Penny Lane

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 motor car.
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 hour glass.
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.
For a fish and finger pies in summer, meanwhile back.

Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
The 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 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