The Beatles
Revolution 9 lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1968
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 8:23
Bottle of claret for you if I'd realised
Well, do next time
I'd forgotten all about it, George, so I'm sorry
Will you forgive me?
Yes
Cheeky bitch
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number
Then there's this Welsh Rarebit wearing some brown underpants
About the shortage of grain in Hertfordshire
Every one of them knew that as time went by
They'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower but
It's all the same thing, in this case
Manufactured by someone who's always
Umpteen times
Your fibres giving it diddly-i-dee
District was leaving, intended to pay for
Number 9, number 9
Who's to know?
Who was to know?
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
I sustained nothing worse than
Also spoken for
Whatever you're doing
A business deal falls through
I informed him on the third night
When fortune gives
Number 9, number 9, number 9
Right, right
Right, right, right, right
Right, right
9, number 9, number 9, number 9
I've missed all of that
It makes me a few days late
Compared with, like, wow!
And weird stuff like that
Taking our sides sometimes
Floral bark
Rouge doctors have brought this specimen
I have nobody's short-cuts, ah-ah
9, number 9
With the situation
They are standing still
The plan, the telegram
Ooh ooh
Number 9, number
Ooh
A man without terrors from beard to false
As the headmaster reported to me
My son he really can try as they do to find function
Who could tell what he was saying
And his voice was low and his hive was high
And his eyes were low
All right!
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Number 9, number 9, number 9
So the wife called, and we'd better go to see a surgeon
Or whatever to price it
Right!
Yellow underclothes
So, any road, we went to see the dentist instead
Who gave her a pair of teeth which wasn't any good at all
So I said I'd marry, join the bloody Navy and went to sea
In my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair
I am not in the mood for wearing
Um da
Aaah
How?
The dogs were dogging, the cats were catting
The birds were birding, and the fish were fishing
The men were menning, and the when were whimming
Only to find the night-watchman
Unaware of his presence in the building
Onion soup
Number 9, number 9, number 9,
Number 9, number 9, number 9
Industrial output
Financial imbalance
Thrusting it between his shoulder blades
The Watusi
The Twist
El Dorado
Take this, brother, may it serve you well
Maybe it's nothing
Aaah
Maybe it's not that; it's
What? What? Oh
Maybe even then
Exposures in London
It's a difficulty being
By exposure
Because it's almost like being naked
If you become naked
That line
Hold that line
Hold that line
Hold that line
Hold that line
Block that kick
Block that kick
Block that kick
Block that kick
Block that kick
Block that kick
Block that kick
Block that kick
Block that kick
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Key vocabulary
- even
- equal; same levelA1
- false
- not trueA1
- find
- discover by searchingA1
- fish
- animal that swims in waterA1
- go
- move to a placeA1
- good
- pleasant; not badA1
- hair
- growing on your headA1
- high
- at a great heightA1
- how
- in what wayA1
- join
- to connect or take partA1
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About this song
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, mixing early rock and R&B with original songwriting and stylistic experimentation. Known for their influential catalog and studio innovations under producer George Martin, they helped redefine pop music’s artistic scope through releases from Please Please Me to Strawberry Fields Forever and Revolver.