Best Beatles Poems

Sung to the melody of when I’m 64 by The Beatles

Gotta keep working an extra few years
(Not like years ago)
Governments are screwing us for every dime
I can’t afford a bottle of wine
Hip's been replaced
Yes I’m getting old
I’m too old to twerk
But I’m so needy
and my...

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I was a preteen when I first heard about The Beatles.
Small town girl from the country, sure we had TV
But we did not know anything about England or Liverpool.
I had never heard “We all live in a Yellow Submarine”. 

I was at church camp when...

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Christmas Day
Pa threw all my new toys away
Now my friends won’t want to come and play
Cos I was naughty yesterday

Suddenly
All the gifts disappeared from ‘neath the tree
Now the carpet’s bare for all to see
Pa snapped at me so suddenly

Why I had to drown our old...

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My sheep go “Baa, Baa, Baa”
My sheep go “Baa, Baa, Baa”
My sheep go “Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa”

Farm country’s quite a place
Greener space and friendly smiles
My sheepdog likes to chase
Grazing flocks out here for miles

You know without sheep,
Don’t ya know I would be sad
Yeah without...

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Is there anyone who doesn't love The Beatles
Their music is known to all the world's people
From far and near
Year after year
Hey Jude rings out in The Beatles cathedral


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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11/30/16


That girl is an over achiever
And avid reader

That girl is a real brainteaser
Yet a true pleaser

That girl had a golden retriever
And a house with multiple bird feeders

That girl yeah she's a high speeder
The music always coming out loud from the speaker

That girl follows her own...

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I once had a ring, or should I say, it once had me... 
it made me vanish, isn't it good, my precious ring? 

it asked me to wear it and make way to its masters cave, 
So it drove me mad and its my precious...

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Will we ever again, see the likes of The Beatles d'ya think
A phenomenon so great, it changed the music scene in a blink
John, Paul, Ringo and George
A brand new type of music they forged
Which, without doubt, will live on forever methinks


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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With all respect to the Beatles classic, behold my Bardish version of 'Yellow Submarine'

O’er the hill whence yelped was I
bode a fellow flote for gain
mark’d we of discourses thence
yonder country of sunken ships

Put to sea beyond yon sun
happenstanced ‘pon waters green
stayed for ’ere neath briny...

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Strawberry fields.
I want to go there
where giraffes in art class
form human shapes
out of vanilla candle wax.

Surreal like a Dali painting
with melting clocks
strewn over large rocks
where nothing is real, 
but not so unbelievable either....

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With great respect to "Girl" by the Beatles, heretofore is my Shakespearean take, in which I have tried to retain the cadence, so you can sing along. The Beatles lyric appears first, for comparison :

Is there anybody going to listen to my story
All about the...

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Strawberry Fields Forever

I have used words and phrases from the Beatles song
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ in order to create the
Desired effect in this poem.

How beautiful it must be,
Let me take you down,
Just you and me,
For no one else is 
In my tree!
Misunderstanding is easy
If you live...

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NO ONE WANTS TO LIVE IN A COLD HOME
from the album "Heaters for Sale"
by Not Paul McCarney 

No one wants to live in a cold home, cold home
Uncle Albert says you should go home, go home
Turn the heat up or sit by the fire
Toasty as...

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Imagine there's no cupcake
Someone in the house ate yours
No Krispy Kremes or KitKats
No pudding pops or s'mores
Imagine there's no halva 
Behind cupboard doors, oo hoo oo....

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You'll never know how much I gag on peanuts
You'll never know how rotten peanuts are.

Listen. 
Do you want to eat a peanut
Do you promise not to heave. 
Woh oo Woo oh 
Closer. 
Let me stuff one in your ear
So that you can hardly hear
I'm in...

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