Polythene Pam Lyrics



Lennon/McCartney


Well you should see Polythene Pam
She's so good-looking but she looks like a man
Well you should see her in drag dressed in her polythene bag
Yes you should see Polythene Pam.
Yeah yeah yeah

Get a dose of her in jackboots and kilt
She's killer-diller when she's dressed to the hilt
She's the kind of a girl that makes the "News of the World"
Yes you could say she was attractively built.
Yeah yeah yeah.

 
Lead Singer: John

Recording: 7/25/69, 7/28/69, 7/30/69
Mixing: 7/30/69, 8/14/69
Length: 1:12
Take: 40

Anomalies

0:07-0:08
Click and apparent drop in or some such of the word "Pam", just before John sings it for real.
0:41
(Left channel) Someone yells "Yeah!"
0:45,0:46-0:47
(Right channel) Someone picks up the maraca. Also Paul: "Yeah" John: "Great"
0:55-1:04
(Left channel) Counting measures from 4 to 7. This sounds like the same voice as at 0:41.
See also She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, 0:00
About a bizarre night John Lennon spent with poet Royston Ellis and his girlfriend, Stephanie. The 3 put on polythene bags and slept in the same bed.
Polythene is a British term for Polyethylene, a plastic polymer used in containers, insulation, and packaging.
Lennon sang this in a thick Liverpool accent. Like the other Beatles, his regular singing voice sounded very American because he grew up listening to US artists.
May have been inspired by Pat Hodgetts, a fan at the Cavern Club who was dubbed "Polythene Pat" because she was always eating from polythene.
The Beatles recorded this as one song with "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window."
Originally intended for The White Album, it was used in a suite of songs at the end of Abbey Road.
 
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