Best The Beatles Poems

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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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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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.
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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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...

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The 
Beatles 
Ringo Starr 
George Harrison 
With Paul McCartney 
And John Lennon 
Also, Pete 
Best, played 
Drums 

Girl 
Get Back 
In My Life 
Can't Buy Me Love 
I'll Follow The Sun 
Don't Let Me Down
Let It Be 
Something 
Help!


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The Beatles (strawberry fields forever)

Once in the Liverpool cavern I saw the Beetles perform, before 
fame made them impossible to reach. Walked down dirty steps 
into a room filled with cigarette smoke, we all smoked back then. 
I liked their music it was young and...

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How much sorrow can you take,
when all you think of is true joy?
Very lonely but not hopeless
until another sunrise comes...
you will be wishing, wide-awake,
for the sweet lips of that young boy!


O lonely girl listening to music and imagining love,
you shouldn't get wings and turn into...

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In 1964 the Beatles toured the USA
And they stood against the Segregation way
John said they would rather lose the cost
Than take the stage with a segregated crowd as it was a loss

Even in these modern days where this stance
Makes you hip in your current civil...

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TELL IT TO THE BEATLES


“Yesterday,” the Beatles crooned,
“All my troubles seemed so far away.”
And tho’ well-sung and better tuned
I’d no idea what they meant to say.

I was callow youth, barest green
And they were brains to the Stones balls.
I’d not yet seen what they had seen
I...

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They Come Together, and Get Back, and then just Let it Be.
The Yellow Submarine needs Help; and will you Please Please Me?
Sargent Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club had A Hard Days Night.
Rubber Soul shot the Revolver at the Album White.
Imagine it was Yesterday, when we got...

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