Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS

   Year : 1974
  Album : None (Released as a bonus track on the Classic Years reissue of
          CAPTAIN FANTASTIC AND THE BROWN DIRT COWBOY)
Writers : John Lennon & Paul McCartney


 Intro: 
Melody: D - G - D   F - D - G   E - G - D   Eb - C-Bb - G  {Repeat}
Chords: G          G/F         C/E         Cm/Eb


G           G/F       C/E       Cm/Eb   G/D       G/F     C/E       Cm/Eb Eb-F/C
Picture yourself in a boat on a river - tangerine trees & marmalade skies.
G        G/F            C/E          Cm/Eb    G/D       G/F        C/E  C  C/Bb
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly-a girl w/ kaleidoscope eyes.
Ab                    Bb9              Cm/Eb               Ab
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head.
Bb9                         F                         C
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone.



CHORUS:
F    /G /A  Bb        C         F    /G /A  Bb        C
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.  Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
F    /G /A  Bb        C         C
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.  Ohhh


  

G          G/F       C/E         Cm/Eb
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain -
      G/D           G/F        C/E         Cm/Eb   Eb-F/C
where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.
G        G/F           C/E            Cm/Eb        G/D       G/F     C/E  C  /Bb
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers that grow so incredibly high.
Ab                Bb9               Cm/Eb                Ab
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore waiting to take you away.
Bb9                         F                              C
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds and you're gone.


 
{Repeat Chorus}

MELODY:  B  G D B  D  B G D  E  B A G A Bb A G A Bb  C 
CHORDS:  G         G/F       C/E        Cm/Eb   

MELODY:  D  B G  D G  D  C B  G         G D G A B C 
CHORDS:  G/D          G/F     C/E       Cm/Eb Eb-F/C

MELODY:  B  G D B  D  B G D  E  B A G A Bb A G A Bb  C 
CHORDS:  G         G/F       C/E        Cm/Eb   

MELODY:  B G D D  B G D D  C B G
CHORDS:  G/D      G/F          C/E       Cm/Eb Eb-F/C

MELODY:  C F C F C A C F C F C F C A C F C F C F C A C F 
CHORDS:  Cm              Bb              Ab                Bb  
					 Newspaper taxis appear on the shore.
Eb         Ab\Eb Eb   Ab
Waiting to take  you away

Bb			    Eb
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds

	   C
And you're gone.

(Chorus)

G           G/F       C/E        Cm/Eb
Picture yourself on a train in a station -
     G/D        G/F          C/E           Cm/Eb   Eb-F/C
with plasticine porters with looking glass ties.
G        G/F        C/E          Cm/Eb           G/D         G/F        C/E
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile - the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

(Chorus, repeat, ad lib, fade)

Chorded by David Bisese
Edited by Rob Davies