Penny Lane

A song by Lennon & McCartney

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In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs

of ev'ry 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 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 fireman with an hourglass

and in his pocket in 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 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 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