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• Charly Hamblyn from MallorcaI don't know what Tom from Avarda is on about but this song was indeed Inspired by an incident that happened to Paul himself, not the keyboard player from the Moody Blues, although I'm sure they would love to think so. Paul even talked about it when interviewed, stating Diane Ashley may have got a few of his possessions but he got the song in return.
• David Harvey from AustraliaI disagree with the comment about George's stuff being edited or remixed by John and Paul and there is no evidence to prove that either man did anything of the sort to him. AFAIK, George never mentioned anything of the sort publicly and neither did John or Paul.
• Bridget from CoVery good. One of my favorites by these guys. Should've been a number 1.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 6th, 1969, "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" by Joe Cocker entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on February 1st, 1970 it peaked at #30 (for 2 weeks) and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...
  On the day Joe Cocker's covered version enter the Top 100, the album 'Abbey Road' was in its 6th week at being #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart...
  R.I.P. to John & George; and Mr. Cocker will celebrate his 70th birthday come next May 20th.
• Alex from Exeter, NhSo heres my inturpatation of this song. Im 18 and this is all based on my own real life expierences.
  
  
  She came in through the bathroom window- This happed to paul one night and the events to follow is the rest of the song
  
  Protected by a silver spoon- well what kind of spoons are silver? The kind you smoke out of. My guess is she hopped in and busted out her pipe and paul let her stay and chat
  
  But now she sucks her thumb and wanders
  By the banks of her own lagoon- But she screwed up on something in small talk because shes sucking her thumb and wandering.
  
  Didn't anybody tell her?
  Didn't anybody see?
  Sunday's on the phone to Monday,
  Tuesday's on the phone to me- This choris is very strait foward, Sunday, when paul tried to return a call to further a relationship, something unplanned happend, she messed up, and no one told her. Normally if sundays phone call is retured or another form of contact happens on monday following a interaction on sunday, tuesdays on the phone leads to me or in this case paul.
  
  She said she'd always been a dancer
  She worked at 15 clubs a day- This is strait foward shes a dancing girl and shes been around, thats fine and perfectly acceptable but going back to what was stated before sundays on the phone to monday and tuesdays on the phone to me. Paul does not give it out that easy.
  
  And though she thought I knew the answer
  Well I knew but I could not say.- The girl thought he had the answere to everything. She thinks from the way he runs his life hes got the answere, well paul says yeah he knows but given the situation he can't tell her.. yet!..
  
  And so I quit the police department
  And got myself a steady job- So having the answere, paul decides to give up his job at the instauition for greener pastures. Something like food services.
  
  And though she tried her best to help me
  She could steal but she could not rob- This girl being very invested and out to get the prize. She continued to see paul and help him adjust. And the last line is just to reassure the listener she could steal his heart but she could not just come in and rob.
  
  and then finally.. Didn't anybody tell her?
  Didn't anybody see?
  Sunday's on the phone to Monday,
  Tuesday's on the phone to me
  Oh yeah.
  
  a song writer plays with lyrics, just to make the listener more suprised
  
  one love!
  
  
• John from Cheltenham, United KingdomI thought the line "Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me" is about him dating different girls on different days! ... so the girl he sees on Sunday was talking to the girl he sees on Monday and the Tuesday girl was talking to him.
  
  Nobody else seems to have interpreted it this way though! lol
  
  
• John from Galeton, PaI thought that right before the beginning of the song, that John says "Paul's the band now" and then "oh, look out!"
• Amanda from Laguna Beach, Cain the movie across the universe one of the main charecters Prudence comes in through the bathroom window.
• Linc from Beaumont, TxI think the telephone lines are about news spreading - just a clever way of saying he was playing phone tag and/or getting the news about, if the above story is correct, having A Day in the Life played before the album came out. Someone might want to check a calender for '67 release date, but now most albums new releases come out on Tuesdays.
• Chloe from St. Louis, Moi love this song. i find it really hilarious that a girl broke into paul's house. i must admit, if i had been alive then, i probably would have too just to have the chance to talk to him.....haha....
• Farrah from Elon, NcThis, and Poythene Pam are my favorite songs in the whole medley.
• Steve Dotstar from Los Angeles, Caand went out the garage door! ;)
• Ken from Louisville, KyJohn was quoted in 1980 as saying "I always wondered who came in Paul's bathroom window. Maybe it was Linda. Somebody had to!"
• Rosario from Naples, Flok nevermind I'm retarded...John says "Oh look out"
• Rosario from Naples, FlI never knew that a girl actually came in through Paul's bathroom window! Anyway I love this song and I'm pretty sure Paul says "Oh look out!" in the beginning.
• Tom from Arvada, CoI don't know why the real account of this story has been posted yet. This is about a groupie, and not one concerning paul, though he is the accredited lyricist. In the 2006 DVD documentary The Classic Artists Series: The Moody Blues (DVD UK, released October 2006), Mike Pinder, the former keyboard player of The Moody Blues, states that the inspiration for the song actually rests with an incident that happened to them - a groupie climbing into an open bathroom window in the bands' home and spending the night with band member Ray Thomas. The next day, Pinder and Thomas recounted the story to McCartney, who - guitar in hand - strummed and sang "She came in through the bathroom window...". Sorry miss Ashley. Although I suppose it never hurts to dream.
• Catherine from Essex, United Kingdomhaha this song is hilarious, i heard that the s.days on the phone to m.day, tdays on the phone to me, is about all the neighbours calling each other and ringing him, ha it sounds like pandamonium, makes me laugh every time i hear paul sing it! the beatles are the best and will live forver!!
• Steve from Fenton, MoJonathan Gould, author of "Can't Buy Me Love", thinks the line about "by the banks of her own lagoon" is a line about Yoko, who had a lake built on the property of Tittenhurst, where she and John lived.
• Steve from Fenton, MoI always took the lines "now she sucks her thumb and wanders...by the banks of her own lagoon" to mean she is incarcerated somewhere, either a prison or a mental institution. Can't say why, it just seemed to fit in my mind. She's a crook and maybe the irony is that she now frequents a bank of a lagoon rather than a bank with money. The "protected by a silver spoon" and "sucks her thumb" seems to be a metaphor suggesting she is young.
• Forrest from Rochester, MnAm I the only one that assumed that in the title, the "bathroom window" was the birth canal through which someone came into the world "protected by a silver spoon, i.e. "with a silver spoon in their mouth" ?
• Pat from Paris, France"And now she sucks her thumb and wanders, by the banks of her own lagoon."
  Could somebody, please, explain that part of the song. I can't see anything logic.
  Thanks.
• Lucyinthesky from Philadelphia, PaCraig why do you say another feeble example of The Beatles "trying" to be naughty? They were really naughty in their personal lives,and Paul's song Why Don't We Do It In The Road on The White Album is a pretty blatant perverted song about having public sex in a road!
• Peter Griffin from Quahog, RiIf you listen right after John says, "Oh, look out!", you can hear someone (possibly Paul) say really fast, "Linda Eastman".
• Bianca Sanchez from Alburquerque, NmI think it's funny how it says "She came in through the bathroom window, 'protected' by a silver 'spoon'" it's like she was gonna smack Paul on the noggin, knock him out, steel his clothes and a few things, then probably make out with him and leave.
  Woh, that was a long story!
• Bonni from Melbourne, AustraliaAccording to Carol Bedford, author of "Waiting for the Beatles: An Apple Scruff's Story", several girls broke into Paul's house using a ladder, and they got in through an upstairs bathroom window. In the book, she notes that "Di" (giving no last name) was the first one into the house, and that it was Di who let the others in. They made off with some clothes and photographs. Paul later approached some of the girls he knew and asked for the photographs back, although he told them they could keep the clothes. He reportedly told several of them that he'd written a song inspired by the event, and it was "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window", but no doubt there are plenty of other influences in the song, as well.
• Mary from LondonIt sounds like John's voice when he says "Lookout!" at the beginning of the song.
• Fred from Laurel, MdAs for the part about being on the phone...there's another meaning to that phrase that everyone here seems to be missing. Saying that "Sally's on the phone to Bobby" means she's trying to get his attention, because she's interested in him. Has this expression died out since then? And Joe, Palos Hts., Ill. - yeah, (though they also use D7 in there, but hey, that's really just a variant on D), this part is hard-driving, and then in the chorus, they get much more 'Beatle-like,' using several more chords, and it all fits together so seamlessly.
  
• Michael from Oxford, EnglandI'd like this song better if it didn't go quite so S-L-O-W-L-Y!!
• Joe from Palos Heights, IlThis song's melody is great. Its just two simple chords-A and D, but thats all you need. Where are these songs now? I know most kids hate their parents music but I'm very jelous of my parents that they lived through some of the greatest music ever, like this.
• Steve from Fenton, MoIt's difficult to compare Joe Cocker's version of this song the Beatles version on Abbey Rd. The Beatles version was an important part of the series of songs linked together on side two of Abbey Rd. and taken together this medley was some of the best music in rock history.
• Cameron from Bainsville, CanadaAnd with this song came the end to the first of the connecting songs. And it couldn't have been a better place. I too love the "Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me" and the "Look out!" right at the beginning. I think the backing vocals are absolutely fantastic as well. A very well crafted song by the genius, Paul McCartney.
• Bill from Erie, PaThis was covered by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on their BBC Sessions tapes, I think.
• Daniel from Tecate, MexicoSorry everyone, Joe Cocker's version kicks butt... I like it even more than the Beatles.
  -Daniel RC, Tecate, Mexico
• Jerry619 from San Diego, United Statesits disputed what exactly harrison did in this song since most of his stuff was edited and or re mixed by eighter lennon or mccartney, however i have an early bootleg recording of this that i found on the internet and u can clearly hear a fender bandmaster guitar or fender telecaster just like lennon used on the let it be recordings as seen on the let it be movie and a or a telecaster like harrison also used on the let it be recording but lennon and harrison would sub for mccartney on the bass this is undisputed but only on the run thoughs!the bass on the album and on the bootleg is totally difrent i wouldent go as far as to say its a fact that harrison played bass on this since we now know that harrison while playing bass on the let it be sessions was reading sheet music composed by mccartney cause he played the bass on this song in an earlyer run through in the movie so no doubt harrison playing bass on she came in through the bathroom window might be more false than fact!
• Devon from Bay Village, OhI really like this song and the whole medely on Abbey Road. I like the begining.
• Mary from Virginia Beach, VaI am a little confused about what this song is about. It says afan broke into Paul's house. Is this true?
  
• John from Woburn, MaGreat vocals by Paul on the first line after john's "oh lookout". priceless.
• Kristina from Small Town, NeI always thought that the lyrics- Sundays on the phone to Monday, Tuesdays on the phone to me- was sort of a nod to the lyrics of Lady Madonna. Kind of follows a similar pattern.
• Laura from Santa Fe, NmI had an enrichment teacher who crawled in through the window so the principal wouldn't know she was late. Every time I hear this song I think about her. she was crazy. I'm 12, is there anyone around my age here?
• Bill from Washington, Dc"Sunday's on the phone to Monday/Tuesday's on the phone to me" ... You can't outrun your past.
• Doug from San Diego, Cathe song is about the teenage craze that was around them, adn the whole sundays on the phone with monday part is about how news spreads fast... more or less
• Maddie from Knoxville, TnMy favorite song on Abbey Road. The lyrics are absolutley genius.
• Jared from Chapel Hill, NcJohn is actually the one who says "Oh, look out!" Before that, he says, "Listen to that, now."
• Max from Miami, FlPaul says "Lookout!" at the beginning of the song, but right before this, John says "Comes to my house."
• Kelly from Burbank, CaI can hear Paul say, "Look out!" at the very beginning of this, but does anyone have any idea what he says a little before that?
• Catherine from Glasgow, EnglandThe line "Sunday's on the phone to monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me" is so strange anyone got any idea what it's about? Anyway i heard Paul McCartney's got a bit of a fetish about phones...
• Tavers from Mesa, AzThe lyrics are genius.
• Kay from Wakefield, MaMy favourite song in the Abbey Road medley.

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