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The song by The Beatles, “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” is a favorite of my mine, and most Beatle fans. A song so beatiful in words as in images. The images you see in your head when you listen to it, that is. You can get a taste in it in the animated film “Yellow Submarine”. A cartoon about a village called Pepperland, a town filled with color, love, and music. But then the Blue Meanies invade Pepperland and turn every thing into grey statues. Including Sargeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (this title was one of their album names) who provide the music for the village.

Luckly, one man escapes using Sargeant Pepper’s Yellow Submarine. He then searches far and wide for someone to help bring back the music to Pepperland. He then bumps into The Beatles!

They join him and on their way, they come across delightful adventures that trigger a scene with an original song. My favorite scenes are when the man is searching for someone to help him because “Eleanor Rigby” is running though it, the other one is obviously “Lucy..”. ANYWAY, what I was initially trying to say is that many believe that “Lucy..” is a song about the drug LSD. That is absolutley NOT true. But I don’t deny that The Beatles used drugs.

The story about “Lucy..” is that John Lennon’s son Julian came home from school one day with a picture he had drawn about a a classmate of his named Lucy O’Donnell. Julian explained the picture to his father, who was so moved with it, he and Paul began working on the song right away. Paul added the words “cellophane flowers” and “newspaper taxis” himself. Above is the image of Julian’s drawing.

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (Lennon-McCartney)
Picture yourself in boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalde skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she’s gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you’re gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

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