Revolution 9



(Lennon/McCartney) Lead vocal: None (montage of tape loops and spoken words)
Recorded: 6 Jun 1968, Abbey Road Studios
Length: 8:13
Version: Many Takes 

Number 9 Number 9
Number 9 Number 9

Number 9 Number 9
Number 9 Number 9

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...then there's this Welsh rarebit wearing some brown underpants
...about the shortage of grain in Hertfordshire.

Every one of them knew that as time went by they'd get a little bit
older and a little bit slower but...

It's all the same thing, in this cas manufactured by someone who's
always umpteen times [ ? ]. You're father's giving it diddly-i-dee
district was leaving...Intended to die. [ ? ] Ottoman... [ ? ]
...long gone through... [ ? ] I've got to say, irritably and...
[ ? ] floors, hard enough to put on [ ? ] per day's MD in our
district. There was not really enought light to get down, and
ultimately [ ? ] slumped down. Suddenly...

They may stop the funding...
Place your bets. The original. Afraid she'll die
[ ? ] great colours for the season...

Number 9 Number 9

Who's to know?
Who's to know?

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Number 9 Number 9 Number 9

I sustained nothing worse than [ ? ]

Also, for example
Whatever you're doing
A business deal falls through.

Number 9 Number 9
Number 9 Number 9

Ri-i-i-i-de! Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-ide!!

Number 9 Number 9
Number 9 Number 9

[ ? ] I've missed all of that.
It makes me a few days late
Compared with, like, wow!
And weird stuff like that...

[ ? ] taking our sides sometimes
[ ? ] Floral bark.
Rogue doctors have brought this specimen.
I have nobody's short-cuts, aha
Nine, Number 9
[ ? ] with the situation
They are standing still.

The plan, the telegram...
Number 9 Number...

A man without terros from beard to false, as the headmaster reported
to my son. He really can try, as they do, to find function...Tell
What he was saying, and his voice was low and his hive high, and his
eyes were low...
Alright!
It was on fire and his glasses were the same.

This thing knows if it was tinted, but you know it isn't. To m it is..

Number 9 Number 9
Number 9 number 9
Number 9 Number 9
Number 9 Number 9
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So the wife called and we'd better go see a surgeon, to price it
[ ? ] yellow undercloths. So, any road, we went to see the dentist
instead, who gave her a pair of teeth which wasn't any good at all.
So I said I'd marry, join the fucking Navy and went to sea.

In my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair.
I am not in the mood for whirling. How? Dogs for dogging, hands
for clapping, birds for birding and fish for fishing, them for
Themming and when for shimming. ...only to find the night-watchman
Unaware of his presence in the building.

Number 9 Number 9 Number 9
Number 9 Number 9 Number 9

Industry allows finantial imbalance.
Thrusting it between his shoulder blades.

The Watusi, The Twist, Eldorado
Take this brother, may it server you well

Maybe it's nothing
What? What? Oh...

Maybe, even then,
impervious to London

[ ? ] could be difficult thing... It's quick like to rush for peace
is because it's so much like being naked

It's alright, it's alright
It's alright, it's alright

It's alright, it's alright,
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
If, you becom naked


®1968 Northern Songs

 

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