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The Beatles Lyrics, album "Yellow Submarine"
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 PAUL 1966: 'It's a happy place, that's all. You know, it was just… We were trying to write a children's song. That was the basic idea. And there's nothing more to be read into it than there is in the lyrics of any children's song.'JOHN 1972: 'Paul wrote the catchy chorus. I helped with the blunderbuss bit.'JOHN 1980: ''Yellow Submarine' is Paul's baby. Donovan helped with the lyrics. I helped with the lyrics too. We virtually made the track come alive in the studio, but based on Paul's inspiration. Paul's idea. Paul's title… written for Ringo.'PAUL 1984: 'I wrote that in bed one night. As a kid's story. And then we thought it would be good for Ringo to do.'PAUL circa-1994: 'I was laying in bed in the Asher's garret, and there's a nice twilight zone just as you're drifting into sleep and as you wake from it – I always find it quite a comfortable zone. I remember thinking that a children's song would be quite a good idea… I was thinking of it as a song for Ringo, which it eventually turned out to be, so I wrote it as not too rangey in the vocal. I just made up a little tune in my head, then started making a story – sort of an ancient mariner, telling the young kids where he'd lived. It was pretty much my song as I recall… I think John helped out. The lyrics got more and more obscure as it goes on, but the chorus, melody and verses are mine.'GEORGE 1999: 'Paul came up with the concept of 'Yellow Submarine.' All I know is just that every time we'd all get around the piano with guitars and start listening to it and arranging it into a record, we'd all fool about. As I said, John's doing the voice that sounds like someone talking down a tube or ship's funnel as they do in the merchant marine. (laughs) And on the final track there's actually that very small party happening! As I seem to remember, there's a few screams and what sounds like small crowd noises in the background.' In the town where I was born Lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his life In the land of submarinesSo we sailed up to the sun 'Til we found the sea of green And we lived beneath the waves In our yellow submarineWe all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarineAnd our friends are all aboard Many more of them live next door And the band begins to playWe all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarineFull speed ahead, Mr. Boatswain, full speed ahead! Full speed it is, Sergeant! Cut the cable, drop the cable! Aye-aye, sir, aye-aye! Captain, Captain!As we live a life of ease (a life of ease) Everyone of us (everyone of us) has all we need (has all we need) Sky of blue (sky of blue) and sea of green (sea of green) In our yellow (in our yellow) submarine (submarine, ah-ha)We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarineWe all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine Only a Northern Song (George Harrison) GEORGE 1980: ''Northern Song' was a joke relating to Liverpool, the Holy City in the North of England. In addition, the song was copyrighted Northern Songs LTD, which I don't own.'GEORGE 1999: 'It was at the point that I realized Dick James had conned me out of the copyrights for my own songs by offering to become my publisher. As an 18 or 19-year-old kid, I thought, 'Great, somebody's gonna publish my songs!' But he never said, 'And incidentally, when you sign this document here, you're assigning me the ownership of the songs,' which is what it is. It was just a blatant theft. By the time I realized what had happened, when they were going public and making all this money out of this catalog, I wrote 'Only A Northern Song' as what we call a 'piss-take,' just to have a joke about it.' If you're listening to this song You may think the chords are going wrong But they're not He just wrote it like thatWhen you're listening late at night You may think the band are not quite right But they are They just play it like thatIt doesn't really matter what chords I play What words I say or time of day it is As it's only a Northern songIt doesn't really matter what clothes I wear Or how I fare or if my hair is brown When it's only a Northern songIf you think the harmony Is a little dark and out of key You're correct There's nobody thereAnd I told you there's no one there JOHN 1971: 'I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All Together Now.''PAUL circa-1994: 'When they were singing a song, to encourage the audience to join in they'd say 'All together now,' so I just took it and read another meaning into it, of – we are all together now. So I used the dual meaning. It's really a children's song. I had a few young relatives and I would sing songs for them.' One, two, three, four Can I have a little more? Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, I love youA, B, C, D Can I bring my friend to tea? E, F, G, H, I, J, I love you(Bom bom bom bompa bom) Sail the ship (Bompa bom) Chop the tree (Bompa bom) Skip the rope (Bompa bom) Look at me(All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together nowBlack, white, green, red Can I take my friend to bed? Pink, brown, yellow, orange and blue, I love you(All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now(Bom bom bom) Sail the ship (Bompa bom) Chop the tree (Bompa bom) Skip the rope (Bompa bom) Look at me(All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now (All together now) All together now JOHN 1980: 'It's a good sounding record that means nothing.'PAUL circa-1994: 'I remember 'Hey Bulldog' as being one of John's songs and I helped him finish it off in the studio, but it's mainly his vibe. There's a little rap at the end between John and I, we went into a crazy little thing at the end. We always tried to make every song different because we figured, 'Why write something like the last one? We've done that.' We were on a ladder so there was never any sense of stepping down a rung, or even staying on the same rung, it was better to move one rung ahead.'GEORGE 1999: 'We now have an unreleased video of 'Hey Bulldog,' as you know. When we were in the studio recording 'Bulldog,' apparently it was at a time when they needed some footage for something else, some other record (Lady Madonna), and a film crew came along and filmed us. Then they cut up the footage and used some of the shots for something else. But it was Neil Aspinall who found out that when you watched and listened to what the original thing was, we were recording 'Bulldog.' This was apparently the only time we were actually filmed recording something, so what Neil did was, he put (the unused footage) all back together again and put the 'Bulldog' soundtrack onto it, and there it was!' Sheepdog Standing in the rain Bullfrog Doing it again Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles What makes you think you're something special when you smile?Child-like No one understands Jack knife In your sweaty hands Some kind of innocence is measured out in years You don't know what it's like to listen to your fearsYou can talk to me You can talk to me You can talk to me, if you're lonely you can talk to meYeah hey, oh! Ho, ho! Yeah! Ho, ho, ho, ho! Ho, ho!Big man (Yeah) Walking in the park Wigwam Frightened of the dark Some kind of solitude is measured out in you You think you know me but you haven't got a clueYou can talk to me You can talk to me You can talk to me, if you're lonely you can talk to me Hey!Wahoo woof! Woof!Hey bulldog! Hey bulldog! Hey bulldog! Hey bulldog![Hey man, what's that noise?Woof!What d'you say?I said woof!D'you know anymore?Wooaah ha ha ha!You've got it, that's great! That's right! That's it, man, hoo!Give it to me, man, hurry! I've got ten children, ho!Ah ho! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!Quiet boy, quiet!OK.]Hey bulldog! Hey bulldog! It's All Too Much (George Harrison) GEORGE 1980: ''It's All Too Much' was written in a childlike manner from realizations that appeared during and after some LSD experiences and which were later confirmed in meditation.'GEORGE 1999: 'I just wanted to write a rock 'n roll song about the whole psychedelic thing of the time – 'Sail me on a silver sun/ Where I know that I am free/ Show me that I'm everywhere/ And get me home for tea.' (laughs) Because you'd trip out, you see, on all this stuff, and then whoops! you'd just be back having your evening cup of tea! 'Your long blond hair/ And your eyes of blue' – that was all just this big ending we had, going out. And as it was in those days, we had the horn players just play a bit of trumpet voluntarily, and so that's how that 'Prince Of Denmark' bit was played (in the fade-out). And Paul and John just came up with and sang that lyric of 'your eyes of blue.'' It's all too much It's all too muchWhen I look into your eyes, your love is there for me And the more I go inside, the more there is to seeIt's all too much for me to take The love that's shining all around you Everywhere, it's what you make For us to take, it's all too muchFloating down the stream of time from life to life with me Makes no difference where you are or where you'd like to beIt's all too much for me to take The love that's shining all around here All the world is birthday cake So take a piece but not too muchSail me on a silver sun, where I know that I'm free Show me that I'm everywhere, and get me home for teaIt's all to much for me to see The love that's shining all around here The more I learn, the less I know But what I do is all too muchIt's all too much for me to take The love that's shining all around you Everywhere, it's what you make For us to take, it's all too muchIt's too much Ah, it's too muchWith your long blond hair and your eyes of blue With your long blond hair and your eyes of blueYou're too much, ah We all get too muchToo much, too much, too much Too much a, too much a, too much a Too much a, too much a, too much a Too much a, too much a, too much a Too much a, too much a, too much a Too much a, too much a, too much a Too much a, too much a, too much a Too much a, too much a, too much a Too much aMuch, much, much, much, much Much, much, much, much, much Much, much, much, much, much Much, much, much, much, much Much, much, much, much, much PAUL 1967: 'We had been told we'd be seen recording it by the whole world at the same time. So we had one message for the world – Love. We need more love in the world.'PAUL circa-1994: ''All You Need Is Love' was John's song. I threw in a few ideas, as did other members of the group, but it was largely ad libs like singing 'She Loves You' or 'Greensleeves' or silly little things like that at the end, and we made those up on the spot.' Love, love, love Love, love, love Love, love, loveThere'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 easyNothing 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 easyAll you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you needLove, love, love Love, love, love Love, love, loveAll you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you needNothing 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 easyAll you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you needAll you need is love (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 (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Yee-hai! (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need)Yesterday (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Love is all you need (Love is all you need) Oh yeah! (Love is all you need) She loves you, yeah yeah yeah (Love is all you need) She loves you, yeah yeah yeah (Love is all you need) Pepperland (George Martin) [Instrumental] Sea of Time (George Martin) [Instrumental] Sea of Holes (George Martin) [Instrumental] Sea of Monsters (George Martin) [Instrumental] March of the Meanies (George Martin) [Instrumental] Pepperland Laid Waste (George Martin) [Instrumental] [Instrumental] |
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