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7.32pm
18 May 2016
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Sounds like a guitar to me so it’s most likely George, although it could be Paul.
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31 March 2008
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I just skimmed through this thread to see if this had been posted already, but couldn’t see it. Last weekend I happened to find a set of lyrics to Revolution 9. Someone had way too much time on their hands. I very much doubt this is accurate, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
(Bottle of Claret for you if I had realised?
Well, do it next time.
I forgot about it, George, I’m sorry.
Will you forgive me?Yes.)
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
Everyone of them knew that as time went by
They’d get a little bit older and a litter slower but
It’s all the same thing, in this case manufactured by someone who’s always
Umpteen your father’s giving it diddly-i-dee
District was leaving, intended to pay forNumber 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 for example
Whatever you’re doing
A business deal falls through
I informed him on the third night
When fortune givesNumber 9, number 9, number 9
People ride, people ride
Ride, ride, ride, ride, ride
Ride! Ride!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 specimenI have nobody’s short-cuts, aha?
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
Tell what he was saying, and his voice was low and his hive high
And his eyes were lowAlright!
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 me and we’d better go to see a surgeon
Or whatever to price it? 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 f*****g navy and went to seaIn my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair
I’m not in the mood for whirlingUm da
AaahHow?
Dogs for dogging, hands for clapping
Birds for birding and fish for fishing
Them for themming and when for whimmingOnly to find the night-watchman
Unaware of his presence in the buildingOnion soup
Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9
Industrial output
Financial imbalanceThrusting it between his shoulder blades
The Watusi
The twistEldorado
Take this brother, may it serve you well
Maybe it’s nothing
Aaah
Maybe it’s nothing
What? What? OhMaybe even then
Impervious in London
Could be difficult thing
It’s quick like rush for peace is
Because it’s so much
It was like being nakedIf you became naked
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Online Years ago ‘Mojo’, ‘Record Collector’ or some other UK magazine transcribed ‘Revolution 9 ‘.
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7.26am
14 June 2016
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I’ve seen that before. The lyrics seem about as acurate as you could make them, however the variations differ depending on which website you use. On some of the transcriptions it says different things, sometimes one is obviously wrong, and sometimes it’s hard to tell which if either of them is right.
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9.44am
1 January 2017
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my wings are broken
and so is my hair
I like that! Sounds like the beginning of a Lennon ballad.
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14 April 2010
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I just skimmed through this thread to see if this had been posted already, but couldn’t see it. Last weekend I happened to find a set of lyrics to Revolution 9. Someone had way too much time on their hands. I very much doubt this is accurate, but it’s interesting nonetheless.(Bottle of Claret for you if I had realised?
Well, do it next time.
I forgot about it, George, I’m sorry.
Will you forgive me?Yes.)
They left out “Cheeky Bitch”! That’s my favorite part – makes me laugh every time I hear it.
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2.11pm
23 July 2016
Offline They say ride instead of right and there’s no take him out.
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Joe said
I just skimmed through this thread to see if this had been posted already, but couldn’t see it. Last weekend I happened to find a set of lyrics to Revolution 9. Someone had way too much time on their hands. I very much doubt this is accurate, but it’s interesting nonetheless.(Bottle of Claret for you if I had realised?
Well, do it next time.
I forgot about it, George, I’m sorry.
Will you forgive me?Yes.)
They left out “Cheeky Bitch”! That’s my favorite part – makes me laugh every time I hear it.
I always hear it as “Yes. You Bitch”.
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2.44pm
27 February 2017
Offline First of all, I really like Revolution 9 , especially within the White Album .
As I listened to it for the first time I had a certain picture in my head and it didn’t change much since then. It was an old person who travelled back in time and relived his life in that way. However, the person could only act as a spectator so he observed his life, all the mistakes he made and he regrets a lot; the piano part and the clarinet part provided the scene with a melancholic and nostalgic atmosphere) Additionally, the images and sounds of his past were flashing around him like a hurricane and that’s why so many impressions got mixed up sometimes.
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3.40pm
9 March 2017
Offline Although I highly prefer this song over Good Night , it’s definitely not their best work. To be fair, the only reason I say this is because this song doesn’t fit in with their other songs at all, it’s a classic rock band performing an avant garde number that reminds me of both EDM and heavy metal. Also, @Martha the clarinet part your thinking about is actually a short guitar passage being played in reverse by George.
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3.58pm
27 February 2017
Offline Uhm, I’m not sure we are talking about the same part @Dark Overlord . I always thought the part at about 4’10” was the guitar passage but I was referring to a sound that can be heard at about 2’30” and shortly after 6’00” just to name two examples which I am pretty sure is a clarinet but I may be wrong. Funny the song reminds you of heavy metal I’ve never looked at it that way. Also, I don’t think it is their greatest work either, just because I consider masterpieces as Strawberry Fields Forever to be even greater but if it fits to their other songs or not is not important to me. Their diversity is what I love about the Beatles. Only very few musicians have travelled so far musically in such a short time.
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14 April 2010
Offline I enjoyed your interpretation @Martha . I will definitely have that in mind during my next listening of the track.
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6.29am
17 January 2016
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In my broken chair,
my wings are broken
and so is my hair
I like that! Sounds like the beginning of a Lennon ballad.
Yeah, I’ve always liked that bit.
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14 June 2016
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I really do love this song, but think my love comes so much from nostalgia.
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11.51am
18 September 2016
Offline I used to skip it all the time, hated it. Then, the fuzzy violins bit ( 5 seconds long!) which starts at about 0:20 secs – I thought I heard it sampled on Portishead’s track “Western Eyes” and it surprised me that I had picked it out. No idea if they did, but it made me think that perhaps I liked Revolution 9 more than I thought. Now I really like it and all the daft inserts. It’s a lot less psychotic than Maxwell’s Silver Hammer – I still don’t like that.
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11 April 2016
Offline I played this to my mum, and when I asked her what she would rate it out of 10, she gave it a nine. 
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15 March 2017
Offline I actually really like Revolution No 9. The Beatles introduced me to a lot of different types of music and this song really opened my eyes to experimental and avant garde music that I was unaware of at that time.
I find it really interesting and I do like the word play in it as it reminds me of the poems that John had written for his books.
I often hear that a lot of people would remove this song from The White Album and I just think that is ridiculous as it wouldn’t be The White Album without Revolution No 9.
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Offline I saw this on The Daily Beatle. It was first published in a Superman comic book in 1965. The writing on the car in the last frame made the site wonder if the cartoonist had premonitions about ‘Revolution 9 ‘.
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6.53am
20 January 2015
Offline It’s a piece of avent garde claptrap more suited for the Tate Gallery and not as a filler for a superb album.
I don’t dislike Yoko Ono but her contribution was not Beatlesque at all. It only goes to show that being in love can make you do some crazy things.
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Offline I think a remarkable work, and its basis – as found in take 20 of Revolution (aka Revolution 1 ) – is one of the most ambitious, ground-breaking and adventurous of all Beatles recordings. Had take 20 been released, we would have a very different view of this recording, possibly considering it up there alongside Tomorrow Never Knows , Rain , Strawberry Fields, A Day In The Life , and I Am The Walrus , amongst the bravest and most inspired of their sonic adventures.
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