I Am The Walrus

Beatles ^ | late 1967 | John Lennon

[DallasBiff]

I Am The Walrus · The Beatles

[KevinB]

Not only is it not in a minor key, but there isn’t even a minor chord in it.

[chuck allen]

The song was banned by the BBC for the line “Boy, you’ve been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down”.

Lyrics

I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
See how they fly
I’m crying

Sitting on a corn flake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you’ve been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long

I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g’joob

Mister City policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky, see how they run
I’m crying, I’m crying
I’m crying, I’m crying

Yellow matter custard
Dripping from a dead dog’s eye
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess
Boy, you’ve been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down

I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus
Goo goo g’joob

Sitting in an English garden
Waiting for the sun
If the sun don’t come you get a tan
From standing in the English rain

I am the egg man (now good sir)
They are the egg men (a poor man, made tame to fortune’s blows)
I am the walrus
Goo goo g’joob, goo goo goo g’joob (good pity)

Expert, texpert choking smokers
Don’t you think the joker laughs at you (ho ho ho, hee hee hee, hah hah hah)
See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snide
I’m crying

Semolina Pilchard
Climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe

I am the egg man
They are the egg men
I am the walrus

Goo goo g’joob, goo goo goo g’joob
Goo goo g’joob, goo goo goo g’joob, goo
Joob, joob, jooba
Jooba, jooba, jooba
Joob, jooba
Joob, jooba

Umpa, umpa, stick it up your jumper (jooba, jooba)
Umpa, umpa, stick it up your jumper
Everybody’s got one (umpa, umpa)
Everybody’s got one (stick it up your jumper)
Everybody’s got one (umpa, umpa)
Everybody’s got one (stick it up your jumper)
Everybody’s got one (umpa, umpa)
Everybody’s got one (stick it up your jumper)
Everybody’s got one (umpa, umpa)
Everybody’s got one (stick it up your jumper)
Everybody’s got one (umpa, umpa)
Everybody’s got one (stick it up your jumper)
Everybody’s got one (umpa, umpa)

Slave
Thou hast slain me
Villain, take my purse
If I ever
Bury my body
The letters which though find’st about me
To Edmund Earl of Gloucester
Seek him out upon the British Party
O untimely death
I know thee well
A serviceable villain, as duteous to the vices of thy mistress
As badness would desire
What, is is he dead?
Sit you down, Father, rest you

[chuck allen]

Great guitar work up by Mike Pachelli here..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZx_A63Dts

[Spacetrucker]

Coo Coo Cachoo.

[steveo]

Piggy in the middle....

[frank ballenger]

In the song Glass Onion he says “here’s another clue for you all, the walrus was Paul” and I wondered if that meant in the cover costume photo shoot. Here is another slant on this:

Why did John say the walrus was Paul?
Lennon dismissed any deep meaning to the mysterious lyrics: I threw the line in—”the Walrus was Paul”—just to confuse everybody a bit more. It could have been “the fox terrier is Paul”. I mean, it’s just a bit of poetry. From genius.com

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite Beatles song:

The Girl I Love

[Fiji Hill]

Not only is it not in a minor key, but there isn’t even a minor chord in it.

How about this one?
Let Her Go--The Minor Chords (1962)

[newbie 10-21-00]

Buried