Penny Lane Chords

PENNY LANE (1967)
 
      B               G#m7            C#m7        F#7
Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
         B                 G#m            Bm7
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know
          G#m7-5                 Gmaj7
And all the people that come and go
          F#7sus4   F#7  F#7sus4 F#7
Stop and say hello
 
       B           G#m7          C#m7     F#7
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
           B                 G#m7           Bm7
The little children laugh at him behind his back
        G#m7-5               Gmaj7
And the banker never wears a mac
       F#7sus7      F#7  E
In the pouring rain,     very strange
 
CHORUS 1:
      A             A/C#            D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A               A/C#           D
Wet beneath the blue suburban skies
           F#7
I sit, and meanwhile back in Penny...
 
B               G#m             C#m7      F#7
Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
           B           G#m             Bm7
And in his pocket is a portrait of the queen
            G#m7-5               G
He likes to keep his fire engine clean
       F#            E
It's a clean machine
 
Instrumental:
|B    G#m    |C#m7   F#7  |B       G#m7    |Bm7      |
|G#m7-5      |Gmaj7       |F#7sus4 F#7     |E        |
 
CHORUS 2:
      A             A/C#            D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A       A/C#             D
Full of fish and finger pies
           F#7
In summer, meanwhile back behind the...
 
B              G#m7        C#m7       F#7
shelter in the middle of a roundabout
           B                G#m7            Bm7
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
               G#m7-5                 Gmaj7
And though she feels as if she's in a play
       F#7sus4  F#7   F#7sus4  F#7
She is anyway
 
         B               G#m7           C#m7     F#7
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer
           B               G#m           Bm7
We see the banker sitting, waiting for a trend
             G#m7-5         Gmaj7
And then the fireman rushes in
         F#7sus4      F#7  E
From the pouring rain,     very strange
 
CHORUS 1 (again):
      A             A/C#            D
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A               A/C#           D
Wet beneath the blue suburban skies
           F#7
I sit, and meanwhile back...
 
[Key change all up a whole tone – straight through, don’t stop]
 
Coda CHORUS:
      B             B/D#            E
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
B               B/D#            E   (2 bars)
Wet beneath the blue suburban skies
       B
Penny Lane
 
 
:Charted by Bustopher the Busker - bustopher@bigpond.com
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