"Polythene Pam" — Lennon's character sketch of a Liverpool woman. Part of the Abbey Road medley. The hard rock feel is surprising.
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From: KROHN
Subject: Re: REQ: Polythene Pam / Beatles
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 16:50:58 GMT
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Michael Rizzo
) writes:
>In article <[email protected]>,
>Stephen Eglen wrote:
>>Does anyone have the tab and lyrics for Polythene Pam from the Abbey Road
>>album?
>>Cheers, Stephen Eglen.
>
>Come on, man. DAE!
>
> Come on, man, yourself; cut the guy some slack. The lyrics aren`t
exactly a breeze for anyone outside of the UK (not even sure I`ve got
`em right), and there`s a little more than DAE here.
According to _Beatles Complete_ (Hal Leonard publishing, 1987 - a most
questionable source):
POLYTHENE PAM
(The Beatles)
D/E A E (x 2)
E D A E
Well, you should see Polythene Pam
D A E
She`s so good looking but she looks like a man
G B
Well, you should see her in drag, dressed in her polythene bag
C D E
Yes, you should see Polythene Pam.
C D E
Yeah, yeah, yeah
D/E A E (x 2)
Get a dose of her in jackboots and kilt
She`s killer diller when she`s dressed to the hilt
She`s the kind of a girl that makes the _News of the World_
Yes, you could say she was attractively built.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
D/E A E (x2)
D A E (x 9?)
[Geez, while I`m at it, here`s She Came in through the Bathroom Window.
Same source:] ltrics corrected by [email protected]
A D
She came in through the bathroom window
A F#m D
protected by a silver spoon
A F#m D
But now she sucks her thumb and wonders
D7 A
by the banks of her own lagoon
(A) Dm
Didn`t anybody tell her?
A Dm
Didn`t anybody see?
G7 C
Sunday`s on the phone to Monday
G7 C (go to 2/4 for the C)
Tuesday`s on the phone to me
She said she`d always been a dancer
Worked in fifteen clubs a day
And though I thought I knew the answer
Well, I knew but I could not say
So I quit the police department
and got myself a steady job
And though she tried her best to help me
she could steal but she could not rob
Chorus
[Hope this isn`t too far wrong]
Martin (Ted) Hermary
Department of Sociology
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
e-mail: [email protected]
Знаете ли вы, что...
- Based partly on a real person from Liverpool. Part of the seamless Abbey Road medley (1969). John uses his best cocky northern voice.