Down Penny Lane across the road there is a barber shop
And on the walls are pictures taken of his skills
His customers are few and plenty, even still
They'll step inside with a little time to kill
Just near the bus-stop is a banker riding in a car
While little children make finger gestures when he drives by
He doesn't see them or even understands just why
It's another day closer to the day he dies
It's just another view that fills up my mind
Another place another time
I sit and wonder but then time flies
While back in Penny Lane a fireman looks at photographs
Inside his coat he carries pictures of the Queen
He's always polishing his fire engine clean
It's so red with such a gleam...
It's just another view so full of sight and sound
At the Bird and Bee you can eat for just a crown
And only tuppenence down, while back
In Penny Lane down on the corner is a flower girl
Selling her poppies as a treat for all to see
And yet she can't tell the forest from the trees
It's another day
While the barber is still cutting hair he wonders why
The banker sits waiting for chance to chat and fly
But the fireman stands to attention to let him by
I still wonder why
It's just another view that fills up my mind
Another place another time
I sit and wonder but then time flies
It's just another view so full of sight and sound
At the Bird and Bee you can eat for just a crown
In Penny Lane it's only tuppenence down...
Author notes
a tribute loosely based around The Beatles 'Penny Lane'- because without them we'd be still humming Perry Como tunes...
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I can really feel the spirit of the street, it's like I'm sitting there with time flying by, just absorbing the atmosphere. There's a lot of details that help make the poem come alive. One of my favorite lines; "Selling her poppies as a treat for all to see
And yet she can't tell the forest from the trees"
I like how this piece is so full of life, and how it still shows us that life goes by so fast, and most of the time we forget to look at and appreciate all the litle detail in our everyday rutines. -
Very well done, I have a friend that lives just off Penny Lane and my husband is a Barber whose friend trained with the Barber in Penny Lane! A great write..I wrote in this comp about visiting John Lennons house have you been? Paul McCartneys caretaker is the inmage of him and sounds like him too. Hugs Lib x x
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This is absolutely fabulous!... I recently went on the Beatles tour, down Penny Lane and to Strawberry Fields, You've done a fantastic job with this, very descriptive and full of imagery. I really enjoyed the read. Just out of interest...do you know what it means by saying the fireman had a picture of the queen in his pocket? let me know if you do lol.
Shaz xx
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