Penny Lane - PAUL MCCARTNEY - LIVE (1992/93)
PENNY LANE (co-written with John Lennon)
(c) 1967 Northern Songs Ltd.
Chords used:
EADGBE
B: x24442
Cm7: 446454
F7: 131211
Bm7: x24232
Bm6: x20132
Gmaj7: 354433
F7sus4:242422
E: 022100
A: x02220
A/C: x42220
D: xx0232
D/A: x00232
B/D: x64442
E/B: x22100
B Cm7 F7
In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
B Bm7
Of every head he`s had the pleasure to know
Bm6 Gmaj7 F7sus4 F7
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
Bm6 Gmaj7 F7sus4 F7
And the banker never wears a mac in the pouring rain
E
Very strange
A A/C D D/A
Penny Lane, is in my ears and in my eyes
A A/C D
There beneath the blue suburban skies
F7
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
B Cm7 F7 B Bm7 Gmaj7 F7sus4 F7 E
Penny Lane, is in my ears and in my eyes
Full 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
B B/D E
Penny Lane, is in my ears and in my eyes
B B/D E E/B
There beneath the blue suburban skies
B
Penny Lane
NOTE: Penny Lane is a bus roundabout in Liverpool, and there
is a barber`s shop showing photographs of every head he`s had
the pleasure to know. Well, no, that`s not true, they`re just
photographs of hairstyles, but all the people who come and go,
stop and say hello. There is a bank on the corner, so we made
up the part about the banker in his motor car. It`s part fact,
part nostalgia, for a place, which is a great place, with its
blue suburban skies, as we remember it, and it`s still there.
We put in a joke or two, `fish and finger pie`. The women
would never dare say that, except to themselves. Most people
wouldn`t hear it, but `finger pie` is just a nice little joke
for the Liverpool lads who like a bit of a smut. (Paul
McCartney)
