Abbey Road Medley - The Beatles (STEREO)

(STEREO) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-YICw...

Copyright - 1969 EMI Records Ltd.

Album Info

With the Let It Be album partly finished, the sessions for Abbey Road began in April. Most of the album was recorded between 2 July and 1 August 1969. Properly, Abbey Road was the last album started by The Beatles before they disbanded. In September 1969, just shortly before the release of the album, John Lennon was on hiatus from the group with the Plastic Ono Band, effectively being the first official sign of dissolution.

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.

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".

Lyrics

Mean Mr 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
Such a 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 Jacked 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

We'll listen to that now. He he he. Oh, look out!
Linda Eastman

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 but 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.

Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles await you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby

Boy, you gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time

I never give you my pillow
I only send you my invitation
And in the middle of the celebrations
I break down

Boy, you gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time

Oh yeah, all right
Are you going to be in my dreams
Tonight?

Love You (Repeated)

And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make.

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[fredury]

thumbs up if you still see value in licensed CD albums in 2012

[sgtelzilcho]

I haven't bought a CD in 5 years, I've been gifted them but I've not bought one. All my music is either vinyl then transfered to digital or off iTunes. To me the CD is dead, it's nice to have all that physical stuff like the booklet but I can't justify spending the extra money for that. i still buy new vinyl though because it's higher quality than CD. And before we start a media war that's a fact, they haven't even made the sample rate in studios high enough for it to match tape but it is close.

[Daniel13l]

dude the abbey road medley starts with "you never give me your money".......not "mean mr mustard"

[sgtelzilcho]

@Daniel13l

there's a massive annotation in the middle of the video that takes you to the full version that I uploaded

[nosaJ jason]

Abbey road starts whenever it wants to and whenever it wants to....you must understand this :()

[protrendvideo]

speed is off



[Alberto737373]

This is music!!!!

[Eric Grubbs]

Why any one dalike this video this song is so awesome

[wescoolya]

CD's common compare that to vinyl and their nothing..

[rharry231171]

What you think of this album ? Mcartney pulling the strings more ? Lennnons mind elsewhere on his and yokos band or his rumoured heroin use ? Whatever it makes me sad ,but i still love this album.....

[peanutjellybelly97]

I've never been a huge fan of The Beatles,but I don't mind John Lennon when solo.

[markycincy3]

Dip dip dip did dip dip did dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dips dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip TACO SMELL!!!