Baby, You're A Rich Man Lyrics



Lennon/McCartney


How does it feel to be
One of the beautiful people?
Now that you know who you are
What do you want to be?
And have you travelled very far?
Far as the eye can see.
How does it feel to be
One of the beautiful people?
How often have you been there?
Often enough to know.
What did you see, when you were there?
Nothing that doesn't show.
Baby you're a rich man,
Baby you're a rich man,
Baby you're a rich man too.
You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo.
What a thing to do.
Baby you're a rich man,
Baby you're a rich man,
Baby you're a rich man too.
How does it feel to be
One of the beautiful people?
Tuned to A natural E
Happy to be that way.
Now that you've found another key
What are you going to play?
Baby you're a rich man,
Baby you're a rich man,
Baby you're a rich man too.
You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo.
What a thing to do.
Baby you're a rich man...

 
Lead Singer: John

Recording: 5/11/67
Mixing: 5/11/67, 10/22/71
Length: 3:07
Take: 2

Anomalies

0:03
Faint Noises (Left)
0:26,0:28 * NEW *
Strange noise from one note caught on the synth (Left)
0:48
Someone comes in early on vocals
0:53
Sounds like a bell? Possibly a glass being hit.
1:08-1:11
Offbeat clicks
2:20
Hissing noise, talking off mic
This is about how everybody can have the things that matter, and it has nothing to do with material possessions. The Beatles were rich, but they claimed that money was not that important to them.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote parts of this separately and combined it to make one song. The part about "the beautiful people" is John, the rest is Paul. At one point, the song was called "One Of The Beautiful People."
The trumpet-like sound at the beginning is a clavioline, an amplified keyboard that acted as a crude synthesizer.
It was rumored that The Beatles sang "Baby you're a rich fag Jew" as a slur to their manager, Brian Epstein. He was rich, gay and Jewish, but The Beatles never said this was about him. Epstein died later in that year when he overdosed on sleeping pills.
This was intended for the Yellow Submarine soundtrack.
Mick Jagger sang backup. McCartney and Lennon returned the favor by singing on The Stones' "We Love You."
Brian Jones, the guitarist from The Rolling Stones, played an oboe on this. A few years earlier, Lennon and McCartney gave The Stones a song called "I Wanna Be Your Man," which was one of their first hits, and helped convince Mick Jagger and Keith Richards that they should write their own songs.
This was released as the B-side of "All You Need Is Love."
There are no guitars. Lennon played keyboards and George Harrison played tambourine.


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