THE BLUE ALBUM (1967-1970)
CD2
1973 - Apple

1. BACK IN THE USSR
(Lennon/McCartney)

Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn't get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man I had a dreadful flight
I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are boy
Back in the USSR.

Been away so long I hardly knew the place
Gee, it's good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone
I'm back in the USSR.
You don't know how lucky you are boy
Back in the US, back in the US, back in the USSR.

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the West behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on my mind.

I'm back in the USSR.
You don't know how lucky you are boys
Back in the USSR.

Show me round your snow peaked mountains way down south
Take me to your daddy's farm
Let me hear your balalaika's ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm.

I'm back in the USSR.
You don't know how lucky you are boys
Back in the USSR.

2. WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS
(Harrison)

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps.

I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at you all ...
Still my guitar gently weeps.

3. OBLADI OBLADA
(Lennon/McCartney)

Desmond has a barrow in the market place,
Molly is the singer in a band.
Desmond says to Molly, girl I like your face
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand.

Ob la di, ob la da, life goes on, bra
La la how the life goes on.
Ob la di, Ob la da, life goes on, bra
La la how the life goes on.

Desmond takes a trolley to the jewellers' stores
Buys a twenty carat golden ring
Takes it back to Molly waiting at the door
And as he gives it to her she begins to sing : ...

In a couple of years they have built a home sweet home.
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones.

Happy ever after in the market place
Desmond lets the children lend a hand
Molly stays at home and does her pretty face
And in the evening she's a singer with the band.

Happy ever after in the market place
Molly lets the children lend a hand
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening she's a singer with the band.

And if you want some fun, take Ob-la-di-bla-da

4. GET BACK
(Lennon/McCartney)

Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass

Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
(get back Jojo, go home)

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can

Get back Loretta
Your mommy is waiting for you
Wearing her high-heel shoes and her low-neck sweater
Get on home Loretta
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged

5. DON'T LET ME DOWN
(Lennon/McCartney)

Don't let me down
Don't let me down
Don't let me down
Don't let me down.

Nobody ever loved me like the way she does
Oo she does, yeh she does
And if somebody loved me like she do me,
Oo she do me, yeh she does.

I'm in love for the first time
Don't you know it's gonna last
It's a love that lasts forever
It's a love that had no past.

And from the first time that she really done me
Oo she done me, she done me good
I guess nobody ever realy done me
Oo she done me, she done me good.

6. THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO
(Lennon/McCartney)

Standing in the dock at Southampton, trying to get to Holland or France,
The man in the mac said, you've got to go back,
You know they didn't even give us a chance.

Christ you know it ain't easy,
You know how hard it can be,
The way things are going, they're going to crucify me.

Finally made the plane into Paris,
Honeymooning down by the Seine,
Peter Brown called to say, you can make it OK ,
You can get married in Gibraltar near Spain.

Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton,
Talking in our beds for a week.
The newspapers said, say what're you doing in bed,
I said we're only trying to get us some peace.

Saving up your money for a rainy day, giving all your clothes to charity.
Last night the wife said, oh boy when you're dead,
You don't take nothing with you but your soul,
Think !

Made a lightning trip to Vienna,
Eating chocolate cake in a bag.
The newspapers said, she's gone to his head,
They look just like two Gurus in drag.

Caught the early plane back to London,
Fifty acorns tied in a sack.
The men from the press said we wish you success,
It's good to have the both of you back.

7. OLD BROWN SHOE
(Harrison)

I want a love that's right but right is only half of what's wrong.
I want a short haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long.
Now I'm stepping out this old brown shoe,
Baby I'm in love with you,
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now
I'm telling you.

You know you pick me up from where some try to drag me down.
And when I see your smile, replacing every thoughtless frown.
Got me escaping from the zoo,
Baby I'm in love with you,
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now
I'm telling you.
If I grow up I'll be a singer, wearing rings on every finger,
Not worrying what they or you say, I'll live and love and maybe someday
Who knows baby you may comfort me.

I may appear to be imperfect, my love is something you can't reject.
I'm changing faster than the weather, if you and me should get together
Who knows baby you may comfort me.

That love of yours to miss that love is something I'd hate.
I'll make an early start, I'm making sure that I'm not late.
For your sweet top lip I'm in the queue,
Baby I'm in love with you,
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now
When I'm with you
I'm so glad you came here, it won't be the same now
When I'm with you.

8. HERE COMES THE SUN
(Harrison)

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun and I say
It's alright.

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun and I say
It's alright.

Little darling, the smiles returning to their faces
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun and I say
It's alright.

Sun, sun sun, here it comes.

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun and I say
It's alright.

9. COME TOGETHER
(Lennon/McCartney)

Here come old flat top, he come groovin' up slowly
He got joo joo eyeball
He one holly roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker
He just do what he please.

He wear no shoeshine, he got toe jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot coca-cola
He say, I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell is you've got to be free.
Come together, right now, over me.

He bag production, he got walrus gumboot,
He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee.
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together, right now, over me.

He roller coaster, he got early warning
He got Muddy Waters, he one Mojo filter
He say one and one and one is three
Got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see.
Come together, right now, over me.

10. SOMETHING
(Harrison)

Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

Something in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know.
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know.

Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she sows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

11. OCTOPUS'S GARDEN
(Starkey)

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus's garden in the shade

I'd ask my friends to come and see
An octopus's garden with me.

We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves

Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus's garden near a cave

We would sing and dance around
Because we know we can't be found.

We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves

Oh what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy and they're safe.

We would be so happy you and me
No one there to tell us what to do.

12. LET IT BE
(Lennon/McCartney)

When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness, she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah
There will be an answer, let it be.

And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

13. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
(Lennon/McCartney)

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind
Possessing and caressing me.

Jai guru deva, om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe.
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.

Sounds of laughter, shades of love are ringing
Through my opened ears view inciting and inviting me.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns
it calls me on and on across the universe.

14. THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
(Lennon/McCartney)

The long and winding road that leads to your door
Will never disappear, I've seen that road before,
It always leads me here,
Lead me to your door.

The wild and windy night that the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears, crying for the day,
Why leave me standing here,
Let me know the way.

Many times I've been alone and many times I've cried,
Anyway you'll never know the many ways I've tried
But still they lead me back to the long and winding road,
You left me standing here, a long long time ago,
Don't leave me waiting here,
Lead me to your door.

But still they lead me back to the long and winding road,
You left me standing here, a long long time ago,
Don't keep me waiting here,
Lead me to your door.