Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
edited April 2007 in Other Music
Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some clothes
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose
Such a mean old man
Such a mean old man

His sister Pam works in a shop
She never stops, she's a go-getter
Takes him out to look at the queen
Only place that he's ever been
Always shouts out something obscene
Such a dirty old man
Dirty old man

Well you should see Polythene Pam
She's so good-looking but she looks like a man
Well you should see her in drag dressed in her polythene bag
Yes you should see Polythene Pam.
Yeah yeah yeah

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.

(Oh, look out!)
She came in through the bathroom window
Protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
By the banks of her own lagoon

Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody see?
Sunday's on the phone to Monday,
Tuesday's on the phone to me

She said she'd always been a dancer
She worked at 15 clubs a day
And though she thought I knew the answer
Well I knew what I could not say.

And 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

Didn't anybody tell her?
Didn't anybody see?
Sunday's on the phone to Monday,
Tuesday's on the phone to me
Oh yeah.
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  • The Beatles should have written about homeless people and drag queens more often. It seems right up their alley.
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  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Such a fantastic piece of music from Abbey Road. I love the way the three songs flow as one.
  • BlackCorduroyBlackCorduroy Posts: 1,374
    holy crap i JUST mentioned how much i love these 3 to someone the other day. it is impossible to not sing along and bob your head during the first 2 especially:D
  • What about You Never Give Me Your Money, Carry that Weight, and of course The End
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i love 'she came in through the bathroom window.'

    not much of a fan of abbey road though.
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  • Originally "Her Majesty" was between "Mustard" and "Pam", but they spliced it out and stuck it at the end of the reel. The crashing chord at the beginning of "Her Majesty" is the last note of "Mustard" and it cuts off at the end because that's where the first note of "Pam" was.
  • paul played she came in through the bathroom windown on his last tour and i almost shit myself
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  • exhaustedexhausted Posts: 6,638
    ... bathroom window soars above the preceeding two.

    which is probably not surprising lennon didn't give a shit at that point.
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,853
    the Abbey Road medley is awesome but I have admit I hate Sun King. one of my fav parts of the medley is the "Outta college money spent, see no future, pay no rent...." part of You Never Give Me You Money. Paul's voice sounds great.
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  • i love 'she came in through the bathroom window.'

    not much of a fan of abbey road though.

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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    i love 'she came in through the bathroom window.'

    not much of a fan of abbey road though.

    ehhhhh!!!

    its one of their best!!!!!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    i love 'she came in through the bathroom window.'

    not much of a fan of abbey road though.
    Hey look everyone, a crazy person! ;)
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Just heard a Beatles cover band play these the other night, I was very impressed.
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  • kdpjamkdpjam Posts: 2,303
    i like the versions from anthology 3..
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  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Bump!!!!

    Cause I am about to flip to side 2 of Abbey Road and this is on the horizon!!

    Love this!!
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    Abbey Road..... tasty....
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    paul played she came in through the bathroom windown on his last tour and i almost shit myself
    He should bring out Joe Cocker to duet on that one. :D
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  • glasshouseglasshouse Posts: 1,762
    polythene pam is the bullocks
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  • So random, right in the middle of Abbey Rd, listening to these songs and I see this thread.

    Love Abbey Road!
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    The medley

    The climax of the album is the sixteen-minute medley consisting of several short songs, both finished and unfinished, blended into a suite by McCartney and George Martin. Most of these songs were written (and originally recorded in demo form) during sessions for The Beatles and the "Get Back"/Let It Be sessions.

    "You Never Give Me Your Money" is the first song of the Abbey Road suite. It was written by McCartney and based loosely on The Beatles' financial problems with Apple. It is followed by three Lennon compositions, "Sun King" (which, like "Because", showcases Lennon's, McCartney's, and Harrison's overdubbed harmonies), "Mean Mr. Mustard" (written during The Beatles' trip to India), and "Polythene Pam". These in turn are followed by four McCartney songs, "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" (written after a fan came into McCartney's residence literally through the bathroom window[citation needed]), "Golden Slumbers" (based on lyrics but not the music of Thomas Dekker's 17th-century song of the same name), "Carry That Weight" which features chorus vocals from all four of The Beatles, although Lennon was in hospital at the time of the primary recording because of a car accident with Ono, his son Julian and Ono's daughter Kyoko—he recorded his vocals at a later date), and the climax, "The End". The latter is notable for featuring Starr's only drum solo in The Beatles catalogue. Starr hated solos and had to be persuaded to do it. It was even edited down several bars from its original recorded version. Toward the end of the song, immediately prior to "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" line played over piano chords, are nine bars or measures of guitar solo: the first bar is played by Paul McCartney, the second by George Harrison, and the third by John Lennon, then the sequence repeats. Each had a distinctive style which McCartney felt reflected their personalities: McCartney's playing included string bends similar to his lead guitar work on Another Girl from the Help album; Harrison's was melodic yet technically advanced and Lennon's was stinging and had the most distortion. Immediately after Lennon's third solo the piano chords of the final line "And in the end...." begin.

    An alternate version with Harrison's lead guitar solo played against McCartney's (with Starr's drum solo heard slightly in the background) appears on the Anthology 3 album. The song ends with the memorable final line, "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make".
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  • yosi1yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    That medley on the second half of Abbey Road is ridiculous.
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  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    The Abbey Road Trilogy. Freaking awesome.
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  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    DOSW wrote:
    Abbey Road..... tasty....
    Isn't it though? :D
  • i love 'she came in through the bathroom window.'

    not much of a fan of abbey road though.

    That's just plain crazy-talk!!! ;)
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