Penny Lane

The Beatles

Tom: B

       B                             E           F#
Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
          B                            Bm
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know.
    Bm/G#                        Bm/G
And all the people that come and go
         F#
Stop and say hello.


        B                        E        F#
On the corner is a banker with a motor car.
            B                               Bm
The little children laugh at him behind his back.
        Bm/G#               Bm/G
And the banker never wears a mac
       F#               E
In the pouring rain.    Very strange.


       A            C#m            D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
  A               C#m            D
There beneath the blue suburban skies,
            F#
I sit and meanwhile back,


          B                               E         F#
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass.
            B                          Bm
And in his pocket is a portrait of the queen.
    Bm/G#                        Bm/G
He likes to keep his fire engine clean,
        F#      
It's a clean machine.


[horn solo]
B               E    F#   
B               Bm
Bm/G#           Bm/G
F#              E


       A            C#m            D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
A         C#m             D
  Full of fish and finger pies,
            F#
In summer meanwhile back,


              B                          E         F#
Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout
           B                               Bm
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
     Bm/G#                            Bm/G
And though she feels as if she's in a play,
       F#
She is anyway.


       B                              E    F#
Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer.
           B                            Bm
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim.
              Bm/G#        Bm/G
And then the fireman rushes in
         F#                E
From the pouring rain.     Very strange.


       A            C#m            D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
  A               C#m            D
There beneath the blue suburban skies,
            F#
I sit and meanwhile back,


       B            D#m            E
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes.
  B               D#m            E     G#
There beneath the blue suburban skies.
             B
Penny Lane!