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Penny Lane

Lennon/McCartney

In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every 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 motorcar
The little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a Mac 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

Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
And in his pocket is 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 four a fish and finger pies in summer
Meanwhile back

Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout
A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she’s in a play
She is anyway

Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer
And the banker’s sitting waiting for a trim
Then the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain
Very strange

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes