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In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
of every head he's had the pleasure to have known
and the people that come and go, stop and say hello.
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
and little children laugh at him behind his back
and the banker never wears a mack, in the pouring rain, very strange.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes,
there beneath the blue suburban skies,
I sit a meanwhile back...
In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
and in his pocket is a portrait of the queen.
He likes to keep his fire engine clean, it's a clean machine.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
for a fish and finger pies, in summer, meanwhile back,
Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
The pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
and though she feels as if she's in her place, she is anyway.
In Penny Lane the barber shoots another customer,
we see the banker sitting waiting for a trim
and the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain, very strange.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban
skies, I sit and meanwhile back, Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes,
there beneath the blue suburban skies... Penny Lane!
-Lennon & McCartney
Magical Mystery Tour, 1967 Northern Songs Ltd.