The Lyrics

Contents

Foreword by Paul McCartney

Introduction by Paul Muldoon

Arrow Through Me

Back in the U.S.S.R.

Band on the Run

Café on the Left Bank

Can’t Buy Me Love

Carry That Weight

Check My Machine

Come and Get It

Cook of the House

Country Dreamer

A Day in the Life

Despite Repeated Warnings

Dress Me Up as a Robber

Ebony and Ivory

Eight Days a Week

The Fool on the Hill

Ghosts of the Past Left Behind

Girls’ School

Give Ireland Back to the Irish

Golden Earth Girl

Golden Slumbers

Good Day Sunshine

Got to Get You Into My Life

A Hard Day’s Night

Here, There and Everywhere

Hope of Deliverance

I Lost My Little Girl

I Saw Her Standing There

I Wanna Be Your Man

I Want to Hold Your Hand

I’ll Follow the Sun

In Spite of All the Danger

I’ve Got a Feeling

Junior’s Farm

The Kiss of Venus

Live and Let Die

The Long and Winding Road

Magical Mystery Tour

Magneto and Titanium Man

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

Maybe I’m Amazed

Mother Nature’s Son

Mull of Kintyre

Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

No More Lonely Nights

The Note You Never Wrote

Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Oh Woman, Oh Why

On My Way to Work

Once Upon a Long Ago

Only Mama Knows

Paperback Writer

Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me)

Please Please Me

Pretty Little Head

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

She’s a Woman

She’s Given Up Talking

She’s Leaving Home

Silly Love Songs

Spirits of Ancient Egypt

Step Inside Love

Tell Me Who He Is

Temporary Secretary

Things We Said Today

Too Many People

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey

Venus and Mars/Rock Show/Venus and Mars – Reprise

Warm and Beautiful

We All Stand Together

We Can Work It Out

When I’m Sixty-Four

When Winter Comes

Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?

With a Little Help from My Friends

Women and Wives

The World Tonight

The World You’re Coming Into

Yellow Submarine

You Never Give Me Your Money

Your Mother Should Know

Note to the Reader

Acknowledgements