SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND


  1. 2'00   Sgt. Pepper's Lonely HCB.
  2. 2'44    With A Little Help From My Friends
  3. 3'25    Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
  4. 2'46    Getting Better
  5. 2'33    Fixing A Hole
  6. 3'33    She's Leaving Home
  7. 2'35    Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
  8. 5'04    Within You Without You
  9. 2'37    When I'm Sixty-Four
  10. 2'41    Lovely Rita
  11. 2'41    Good Morning Good Morning
  12. 1'17    Sgt. Pepper (Reprise)
  13. 5'04    A Day In The Life

Length: 39'26

First issued 1 June 1967

PreviousNextSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band



(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



It was twenty years ago today,

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play

They've been going in and out of style

But they're guaranteed to raise a smile.



So may I introduce to you

The act you've known for all these years,

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.



We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,

We hope you will enjoy the show,

We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,

Sit back and let the evening go.



Sgt. Pepper's lonely, Sgt. Pepper's lonely,

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.



It's wonderful to be here,

It's certainly a thrill.

You're such a lovely audience,

We'd like to take you home with us,

We'd love to take you home.



I don't really want to stop the show,

But I thought that you might like to know,

That the singer's going to sing a song,

And he wants you all to sing along.



So let me introduce to you

The one and only Billy Shears

And Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.




PreviousNextWith A Little Help From My Friends

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: Starr



What would you think if I sang out of tune,

Would you stand up and walk out on me.

Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,

And I'll try not to sing out of key.



I get by with a little help from my friends,

I get high with a little help from my friends,

Going to try with a little help from my friends.



What do I do when my love is away.

(Does it worry you to be alone)

How do I feel by the end of the day

(Are you sad because you're on your own)



No I get by with a little help from my friends,



Do you need anybody,

I need somebody to love.

Could it be anybody

I want somebody to love.



Would you believe in a love at first sight,

Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time.

What do you see when you turn out the light,

I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.



Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,



Do you need anybody,

I just need somebody to love,

Could it be anybody,

I want somebody to love.

I get by with a little help from my friends,

Yes I get by with a little help from my friends,

With a little help from my friends.




PreviousNextLucy In The Sky With Diamonds

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: Lennon



Picture yourself in a boat on a river,

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.



Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,

Towering over your head.

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,

And she's gone.



Lucy in the sky with diamonds.



Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain

Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies,

Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,

That grow so incredibly high.



Newpaper taxis appear on the shore,

Waiting to take you away.

Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,

And you're gone.



Lucy in the sky with diamonds,



Picture yourself on a train in a station,

With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,

The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.




PreviousNextGetting Better

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



It's getting better all the time



I used to get mad at my school

The teachers who taught me weren't cool

You're holding me down, turning me round

Filling me up with your rules.



I've got to admit it's getting better

A little better all the time

I have to admit it's getting better

It's getting better since you've been mine.



Me used to be a angry young man

Me hiding me head in the sand

You gave me the word

I finally heard

I'm doing the best that I can.



I've got to admit it's getting better



I used to be cruel to my woman

I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved

Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene

And I'm doing the best that I can.



I admit it's getting better

A little better all the time

Yes I admit it's getting better

It's getting better since you've been mine




PreviousNextFixing A Hole

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in

And stops my mind from wandering

Where will it go



I'm filling the cracks that  ran through the door

And kept my mind from wandering

Where will it go



And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong

I'm right

Where I belong I'm right

Where I belong.



See the people standing there who disagree and never win

And wonder why they don't get in my door.

I'm painting my room in the colourful way

And when my mind is wandering

There I will go.



And it really doesn't matter if

I'm wrong I'm right

Where I belong I'm right

Where I belong.



Silly people run around they worry me

And never ask me why they don't get past my door.

I'm taking the time for a number of things

That weren't important yesterday

And I still go.



I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in

And stops my mind from wandering

Where it will go.




PreviousNextShe's Leaving Home

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begings

Silently closing her bedroom door

Leaving the note that she hoped would say more



She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her hankerchief

Quietly turing the backdoor key

Stepping outside she is free.



She (We gave her most of our lives)

is leaving (Sacraficed most of our lives)

home (We gave her everything money could buy)

She's leaving home after living alone

For so many years.  Bye, bye



Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown

Picks up the letter that's lying there

Standing alone at the top of the stairs



She breaks down and cries to her husband

Daddy our baby's gone.

Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly

How could she do this to me.



She (We never though of ourselves)

is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)

home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)

She's leaving home after living alone

For so many years. Bye, bye



Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away

Waiting to keep the appointment she made

Meeting a man from the motor trade.



She  What did we do that was wrong

is having  We didn't know it was wrong

fun  Fun is the one thing that money can't buy

Something inside that was always denied

For so many years. Bye, Bye

She's leaving home bye bye




PreviousNextBeing For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: Lennon



For the benefit of Mr. Kite

There will be a show tonight on trampoline

The Hendersons will all be there

Late of Pablo Fanques Fair-what a scene



Over men and horses hoops and garters

Lastly through  a hogshead of real fire!

In this way Mr. K. will challenge the world!

The celebrated Mr. K.

Performs his feat on Saturday at Bishopsgate



The Hendersons will dance and sing

As Mr. Kite flys through the ring don't be late

Messrs. K and H. assure the public

Their production will be second to none

And of course Henry The Horse dances the waltz!



The band begins at ten to six

When Mr. K. performs his tricks without a sound

And Mr. H. will demonstrate

Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground

Having been some days in preparation

A splendid time is guaranteed for all

And tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill.




PreviousNextWithin You Without You

(Harrison)  Lead vocal: Harrison



We were talking-about the space between us all

And the people-who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion

Never glimpse the truth-then it's far too late-when they pass away.

We were talking-about the love we all could share-when we find it

To try our best to hold it there-with our love

With our love-we could save the world-if they only knew.

Try to realise it's all within yourself

no-one else can make you change

And to see you're really only very small,

and life flows within you and without you.

We were talking-about the love that's gone so cold and the people,

Who gain the world and lose their soul-

they don't know-they can't see-are you one of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself-then you may find, peace of mind,

is waiting there-

And the time will come when you see

we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you.




PreviousNextWhen I'm Sixty-Four

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



When I get older losing my hair,

Many years from now.

Will you still be sending me a valentine

Birthday greetings bottle of wine.



If I'd been out till quarter to three

Would you lock the door,

Will you still need me, will you still feed me,

When I'm sixty-four.



You'll be older too,

And it you say the word,

I could stay with you.



I could be handy, mending a fuse

When your lights have gone.

You can knit a sweater by the fireside

Sunday mornings go for a ride,



Doing the garden, digging the weeds,

Who could ask for more.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me,

When I'm sixty-four.



Every summer we can rent a cottage,

In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear

We shall scrimp and save

Grandchildren on your knee

Vera Chuck & Dave



Send me a postcard, drop me a line,

Stating point of view

Indicate precisely what you mean to say

Yours sincerely, wasting away



Give me your answer, fill in a form

Mine for evermore

Will you still need me, will you still feed me,

When I'm sixty-four.




PreviousNextLovely Rita

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



Lovely Rita meter maid.

Lovely Rita meter maid.

Lovely Rita meter maid.

Nothing can come between us,

When it gets dark I tow your heart away.



Standing by a parking meter,

When I caught a glimpse of Rita,

Filling in a ticket in her little white book.

In a cap she looked much older,



And the bag across her shoulder

Made her look a little like a military man.



Lovely Rita meter maid,

May I inquire discreetly,

When are you free,

To take some tea with me.



Took her out and tried to win her,

Had a laugh and over dinner,

Told her I would really like to see her again,

Got the bill and Rita paid it,



Took her home I nearly made it,

Sitting on the sofa with a sister or two.

Oh, lovely Rita meter maid,

Where would I be without you,

Give us a wink and make me think of you.




PreviousNextGood Morning Good Morning

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: Lennon



Nothing to do to save his life call his wife in

Nothing to say but what a day how's your boy been

Nothing to do it's up to you

I've got nothing to say but it's O.K.



Good morning, good morning...



Going to work don't want to go feeling low down

Heading for home you start to roam then you're in town

Everybody knows there's nothing doing

Everything is closed it's like a ruin

Everyone you see is half asleep.

And you're on your own you're in the street



Good morning, good morning...



After a while you start to smile now you feel cool.

Then you decide to take a walk by the old school.

Nothing has changed it's still the same

I've got nothing to say but it's O.K.



Good morning, good morning...



People running round it's five o'clock.

Everywhere in town is getting dark.

Everyone you see is full of life.

It's time for tea and meet the wife.

Somebody needs to know the time, glad that I'm here.

Watching the skirts you start to flirt now you're in gear.

Go to a show you hope she goes.

I've got nothing to say but it's O.K.



Good morning, good morning...




PreviousNextSgt. Pepper (Reprise)

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney, Lennon and Harrison



We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

We hope you have enjoyed the show

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

We're sorry but it's time to go.



Sergeant Pepper's lonely.

Sergeant Pepper's lonely.

Sergeant Pepper's lonely.

Sergeant Pepper's lonely.

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band



We'd like to thank you once again

Sergeant Pepper's one and only Lonely Hearts Club Band



It's getting very near the end

Sergeant Pepper's lonely

Sergeant Pepper's lonely

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.




PreviousNextA Day In The Life

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: Lennon and McCartney



I read the news today oh boy

About a lucky man who made the grade

And though the news was rather sad

Well I just had to laugh

I saw the photograph.



He blew his mind out in a car

He didn't notice that the lights had changed

A crowd of people stood and stared

They'd seen his face before



Nobody was really sure

If he was from the House of Lords.



I saw a film today oh boy

The English Army had just won the war

A crowd of people turned away

but I just had to look



Having read the book.

I'd love to turn you on



Woke up, fell out of bed,

Dragged a comb across my head



Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,

And looking up I noticed I was late.



Found my coat and grabbed my hat

Made the bus in seconds flat



Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,

Somebody spoke and I went into a dream



I read the news today oh boy

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all



Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

I'd love to turn you on




 

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR


  1. 2'46   Magical Mystery Tour
  2. 2'56    The Fool On The Hill
  3. 2'12    Flying
  4. 3'52    Blue Jay Way
  5. 2'25    Your Mother Should Know
  6. 4'32    I Am The Walrus
  7. 3'25    Hello Goodbye
  8. 4'04    Strawberry Fields Forever
  9. 2'59    Penny Lane
  10. 2'57    Baby, You're A Rich Man
  11. 3'45    All You Need Is Love

Length: 35'53

First issued 27 November 1967



PreviousNextMagical Mystery Tour

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.

Roll up AND THAT'S AN INVITATION, roll up for the mystery tour.

Roll up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, roll up for the mystery tour.

The magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away,

Waiting to take you away.



Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.

Roll up WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING YOU NEED, roll up for the mystery tour.

Roll up SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, roll up for the mystery tour.

The magical mystery tour is hoping to take you away,

Hoping to take you away.



Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.

Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.

Roll up AND THAT'S AN INVITATION, roll up for the mystery tour.

Roll up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, roll up for the mystery tour.

The magical mystery tour is coming to take you away,

Coming to take you away.

The magical mystery tour is dying to take you away,

Dying to take you away, take you away.




PreviousNextThe Fool On The Hill

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



Day after day alone on the hill,

The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still,

But nobody wants to know him,

They can see that he's just a fool,

And he never gives an answer,

But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down,

And the eyes in his head,

See the world spinning around.



Well on his way his head in a cloud,

The man of a thousand voices talking percetly loud

But nobody ever hears him,

Or the sound he appears to make,

And he never seems to notice,

But the fool on the hill . . .

Nobody seems to like him

They can tell what he wants to do.

And he never shows his feelings,

But the fool on the hill . . .


PreviousNextFlying

(Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starr)  instrumental




PreviousNextBlue Jay Way

(Harrison)  Lead vocal: Harrison



There's a fog upon L.A.

And my friends have lost their way

We'll be over soon they said

Now they've lost themselves instead.



Please don't be long please don't you be very long

Please don't be long or I may be asleep



Well it only goes to show

And I told them where to go

Ask a policeman on the street

There's so many there to meet



Please don't be long please don't you be very long

Please don't be long or I may be asleep



Now it's past my bed I know

And I'd really like to go

Soon will be the break of day

Sitting here in Blue Jay Way



Please don't be long please don't you be very long

Please don't be long or I may be asleep.

Please don't be long please don't you be very long

Please don't be long

Please don't be long please don't you be very long

Please don't be long

Please don't be long please don't you be very long

Please don't be long

Don't be long - don't be long - don't be long

Don't be long - don't be long - don't be long.




PreviousNextYour Mother Should Know

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



Let's all get up and dance to a song

That was a hit before your mother was born.

Though she was born a long, long time ago

Your mother should know (Your mother should...)

Your mother should know (...know.)

Sing it again.



Let's all get up and dance to a song

That was a hit before your mother was born.

Though she was born a long, long time ago

Your mother should know (Your mother should...)

Your mother should know (...know.)



Lift up your hearts and sing me a song

That was a hit before your mother was born.

Though she was born a long, long time ago

Your mother should know (Your mother should...)

Your mother should know (Aaaah.)

Your mother should know (Your mother should...)

Your mother should know (Aaaah.)

Sing it again.



Da-da-da-da...



Though she was born a long, long time ago

Your mother should know (Your mother should...)

Your mother should know (Yeah.)

Your mother should know (Your mother should...)

Your mother should know (Yeah.)

Your mother should know (Your mother should...)

Your mother should know (Yeah.)




PreviousNextI Am The Walrus

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: Lennon



I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.

I'm crying.



Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.



Mister City Policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row.

See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.

I'm crying, I'm crying.

I'm crying, I'm crying.



Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.

Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,

Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.



Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.

If the sun don't come, you get a tan

From standing in the English rain.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.



Expert textpert choking smokers,

Don't you thing the joker laughs at you?

See how they smile like pigs in a sty,

See how they snied.

I'm crying.



Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.

Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Alan Poe.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.




PreviousNextHello Goodbye

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



You say yes, I say no.

You say stop and I say go go go, oh no.

You say goodbye and I say hello

Hello hello

I don't know why you say goodbye, Isay hello

Hello hello

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello.



I say high, you say low.

You say why and I say I don't know, oh no.

You say goodbye and I say hello

HELLO GOODBYE HELLO GOODBYE hello hello

HELLO GOODBYE I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello

HELLO GOODBYE HELLO GOODBYE hello hello

HELLO GOODBYE I don't know why you say goodbye

HELLO GOODBYE I say goodbye.



Why why why why why why do you say goodbye goodbye, oh no?



You say goodbye and I say hello

Hello hello

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello

Hello hello

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello.



You say yes I SAY YES I say no BUT I MAY MEAN NO.

You say stop I CAN STAY and I say go go go TILL IT'S TIME TO GO OH, oh no.

You say goodbye and I say hello

Hello hello

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello

Hello hello

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say goodbye

Hello hello

I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello hello.



Hela heba helloa CHA CHA (repeat & fade out)




PreviousNextStrawberry Fields Forever

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: Lennon



Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.

Strawberry Fields forever.



Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn't matter much to me.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.

Strawberry Fields forever.



No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.

That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right, that is I think it's not too bad.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.

Strawberry Fields forever.



Always, no sometimes, think it's me, but you know I know when it's a dream.

I think er know I mean a 'Yes' but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree.

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.

Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.

Strawberry Fields forever.

Strawberry Fields forever.




PreviousNextPenny Lane

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: McCartney



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

The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray

And tho' 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.




PreviousNextBaby, You're A Rich Man

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: Lennon



How does it feel to be

One of the beautiful people?



Now that you know who you are

What do you want to be?



And have you travelled very far?

Far as the eye can see.



How does it feel to be

One of the beautiful people?



How often have you been there?

Often enough to know.



What did you see, when you were there?

Nothing that doesn't show.



Baby you're a rich man,

Baby you're a rich man,

Baby you're a rich man too.

You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo.

What a thing to do.



Baby you're a rich man,

Baby you're a rich man,

Baby you're a rich man too.



How does it feel to be

One of the beautiful people?



Tuned to A natural E

Happy to be that way.



Now that you've found another key

What are you going to play?



Baby you're a rich man,

Baby you're a rich man,

Baby you're a rich man too.

You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo.

What a thing to do.

Baby you're a rich man...




PreviousNextAll You Need Is Love

(Lennon/McCartney)  Lead vocal: Lennon



Love, Love, Love.

Love, Love, Love.

Love, Love, Love.



There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.

Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.

It's easy.



Nothing you can make that can't be made.

No one you can save that can't be saved.

Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.

It's easy.



Chorus:

All you need is love.

All you need is love.

All you need is love, love.

Love is all you need.



Chorus



Nothing you can know that isn't known.

Nothing you can see that isn't shown.

Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

It's easy.



Chorus



All you need is love (Paul: All together, now!)

All you need is love. (Everybody!)

All you need is love, love.

Love is all you need (love is all you need).



Yee-hai!

Oh yeah!

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.