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She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
John Lennon:
Vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar
Paul McCartney: Vocals, bass guitar, lead guitar, piano,
electric piano
George Harrison: Lead guitar
Ringo Starr: Drums, tambourine, maracas, cowbell
Recorded
July 25, 28, 30 1969.
Available on:
Abbey
Road
Anthology 3
"Apple
scruff" was the nickname for persistent Beatles fans
who would literally camp outside the studio or outside the
Beatles' private houses for days, weeks and months in order
to get a glimpse of their idols. Some of them followed the
Beatles for so long that they even got to know them quite
well.
One day
a group of apple scruff were waiting outside Paul McCartney's
house in St Johns Wood, London as usual. McCartney was away
for the day, and the fans must have been impatient, becasue
a girl called Diane Ashley found a ladder in his garden
and decided to climb in through the bathroom window, which
happened to be unlocked. Once Diane was in, she opened the
front door so that others could come in too. Unfortunately,
some of Paul's photographs and negatives were stolen that
day, and he never managed to retrieve all of them back.
It's likely
that this incident at least partly inspired Paul to write
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. And if that's the
case, then at least something good came out of the unfortunte
incident.
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
She came in through the bathroom window
protected by a silver spoon
But now she sucks her thumb and wonders
By the banks of her own lagoon
Didn't
anybody tell her
Didn't anybody see
Sunday's on the phone to Monday
Tuesday's on the phone to me
She said
she's always been a dancer
She worked at fifteen clubs a day
And though she thought I knew the answer
Well I knew what I could not say
And so
I quit the Police Department
And got myself a steady job
And though she tried her best to help me
She could steal, but she could not rob
Didn't
anybody tell her
Didn't anybody see
Sunday's on the phone to Monday
Tuesday's on the phone to me
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