Penny Lane

Penny Lane

 

A música Penny Lane foi inspirada nos elementos desta rua. Na junção da Penny Lane com a Princes Park funcionava um importante terminal de ônibus. Lennon e McCartney combinavam se encontrar ali, para pegar ônibus para o centro de Liverpool. Incluiram na canção as pessoas e coisas deste lugar (o barbeiro, os carros do corpo de bombeiro, a enfermeira que vendia flores, um banqueiro que molhava todo quando chovia, etc.

O nome da rua deriva de um antigo mercador de escravos do século XVIII, James Penny.

Era comum o roubo das placas desta rua pelos fã dos Beatles, por isso a prefeitura decidiu pintar o nome da rua nos muros e nas paredes de prédios, abolindo as placas. Porem os moradores não gostaram e em 2007 a prefeitura voltou a colocar as placas, e os roubos reiniciaram.

Penny lane -

Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs

Of every head he´s had the pleasure to known

And all the people that come and go

Stop and say hello

On the corner is a banker with a motorcraft

The little children laugh at him behind his back

And the banker never wears a mac

In the pouring rain

Very strange

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Penny lane is in my ears and in my eyes

There beneath the blue suburban skies

I sit and meanwhile back

In penny lane there is a fireman with´an hourglass

N´in his pocket is a portrait of the queen

He likes to keep his fire engine clean

It´s a clean machine

.......

Penny lane is in my ears and in my eyes

A four of fish and finger pies

In summer, meanwhile back

Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout

A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray

N´though she feels as if she´s in a play

She is anyway

Penny lane the barber shaves another customer

We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim

And then the fireman rushes in

From the pouring rain

Very strange

Penny lane is in my ears and in my eyes…. Etc (estribilho)