Eleanor Rigby



(Lennon/McCartney)
Recorded: 28 Apr 1966, Abbey Road Studios
Length: 2:03
Version: Take 15
Paul: vocal
John: harmony vocal
George: harmony vocal
Tony Gilbert, Sidney Sax, John Sharpe, Jurgen Hess: violins
Stephen Shingles, John Underwood: violas
Derek Simpson, Norman Jones: cellos

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby piks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keep in a jar by the door
Wo is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working. Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?


®1966 Northern Songs

 

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