John Lennon's Guitar

Album: Welcome to the Show (1990)
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  • Back in the autumn of seventy
    On the night shift at Abbey Road
    Four young men were recording a song named "Galadriel"
    For an album they'd call Once Again
    The producer was Norman Smith
    Who'd engineered with The Beatles and John
    Whose guitar was to be instrumental that day
    When I came to play
    I remember it well, as if it was yesterday
    The day that I played John Lennon's guitar
    I remember it well, as if it was yesterday
    The day that I played John Lennon's guitar

    Back in the autumn of seventy
    As I played on my borrowed guitar
    How could I know The Beatles would split the next day
    My heroes break up and go their own way

    Now autumns they came and they go
    But my friends and my memories remain
    And my heroes, well some of them fell from the stage
    But their light still remains

    I remember it well, as if it was yesterday
    The day that I played John Lennon's guitar
    I remember it well, as if it was yesterday
    The day that I played John Lennon's guitar

    I remember the day
    I remember the day
    I remember the day
    I remember the day
    The day that I played John Lennon's guitar
    I remember the day, as if it was yesterday
    And I know that the memories will never fade
    I remember the day, as if it was yesterday
    The day that I played John Lennon's guitar Writer/s: JOHN LEES
    Publisher: Kassner Associated Publishers Ltd
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Comments: 1

  • Kevin from Reading , PaFor a real gem of a song try to find BJH's "Titles," an ingeneous tribute to the Beatles with lyrics comprised entirely of Beatle song titles. The music is great, too. On the surface, it sounds like it should be kind of lame, but it really works. It's from '74 I think.
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