Abbey Road Medley - The Beatles (STEREO)

(STEREO) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-YICwcQPk&fmt=18

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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[72padawan]

does anyone but me hear in the music that (pauls?)voice isnt the same as it was when he was younger...it s not that is a bad voice, its that the earlier recordings reveal a DIFFERENT voice, like it was a completely different person.I hear it as plain as the rain and ive been a beatles fan all my life.This is not the real Paul McCartney! He is BILLY SHEARS william cambell

[sgtelzilcho]

@72padawan

sounds the like the same voice to me. A lot of people after they heard about the "Paul is Dead" myth start hearing things that are all in their head. Besides they all sound different, you gonna say that George was dead because his voice had changed between 1962 and 1970, Something or some of the stuff on All Things Must Pass don't sound the same as Don't Bother Me or Roll Over Beethoven

[Cururupu2010]

that -boy you have to carry that weight- is such a rip off from this song:

youtube.com/watch?v=GGjfN43pjw­A

[sgtelzilcho]

@Cururupu2010

the link doesn't work mate, it just takes me back to the home page

[Cururupu2010]

@sgtelzilcho

uploaded it in my videos, try it from there, it's called "Canihouse"

[sgtelzilcho]

@Cururupu2010

I can see why you would say the beatles ripped it off, there are some similarities but not enough for it to be a rip off. And listening too it the production sounds more modern so I'd say if anyone ripped off anyone then they ripped off the Beatles. If you could link me to a page that has more info on the song (date recorded, who wrote it etc) that would be good.

[beatleslvrfl]

At the "Boy, you gonna carry that weight" part I love how you can hear RIngo's voice .

[RosekillProductions]

@Cururupu2010 It's "Boy, you're gonna carry that weight."

[InParticularNobody]

@72padawan yawn.

[iLikeEvreyThing]

@72padawan You do know when you grow up your voice does change even ringo george and john sound different......Check out Boys by The Beatles and then check out Octopus's Garden (Ringo's voice)...THEN check Do you want to know a secret,after that check out Something. (George's voice)

[HiCallMeShadow]

@72padawan Dude Paul can change his voice like he usually does. When I first heard Paul it was in "I Saw Her Standing There", and it doesn't sound like him to me, but it is him!

[steandrews1]

There have been many debates as to who plays what part in the guitar solos in "are you goin to be in my dreams tonight." they are as follows; Paul, George, John. and so it goes on till the end each taking three turns.If you listen you can hear the change quite clear and if you know the music of these guys you will know the three diferent styles.

[Ryfr21]

abbey road is definitely my fave beatle record :) i do love all the songs.

[Appelsappel]

@AzBboy you know, I've never spent a single moment thinking what it could've been without John or Paul or whatever, I just think they've made a good album here..

[AzBboy]

@toysrmuff fifty percent of the fillers wouldnt exist...wouldn't brag.

[AzBboy]

@Appelsappel haha just another brainless star struck fan....you wreak lennon no doubt...

[LikeWiseLikeYou]

Well the caption is correct, but you start it with Mean Mr. Mustard... pretty sure I'm gonna hear the brass soar, playing You Never Give Me Your Money, but I won't know where it came from. Wish this video started with the RIGHT song.