BEATLES - "Polythene Pam" Tablature

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From: KROHN
Subject: Re: REQ: Polythene Pam / Beatles
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 16:50:58 GMT

In article mrizzo@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Michael Rizzo
) writes:
In article ,
Stephen Eglen wrote:
Does anyone have the tab and lyrics for Polythene Pam from the Abbey Road
album?
Cheers, Stephen Eglen.

Come on, man. DAE!

Come on, man, yourself; cut the guy some slack. The lyrics aren't
exactly a breeze for anyone outside of the UK (not even sure I've got
'em right), and there's a little more than DAE here.

According to _Beatles Complete_ (Hal Leonard publishing, 1987 - a most
questionable source):

POLYTHENE PAM
(The Beatles)
D/E A E (x 2)
E D A E
Well, you should see Polythene Pam
D A E
She's so good looking but she looks like a man
G B
Well, you should see her in drag, dressed in her polythene bag
C D E
Yes, you should see Polythene Pam.
C D E
Yeah, yeah, yeah

D/E A E (x 2)

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

D/E A E (x2)
D A E (x 9?)

[Geez, while I'm at it, here's She Came in through the Bathroom Window.
Same source:] ltrics corrected by Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca

A D
She came in through the bathroom window
A F#m D
protected by a silver spoon
A F#m D
But now she sucks her thumb and wonders
D7 A
by the banks of her own lagoon

(A) Dm
Didn't anybody tell her?
A Dm
Didn't anybody see?
G7 C
Sunday's on the phone to Monday
G7 C (go to 2/4 for the C)
Tuesday's on the phone to me

She said she'd always been a dancer
Worked in fifteen clubs a day
And though I thought I knew the answer
Well, I knew but I could not say

So I quit the police department
and got myself a steady job
And though she tried her best to help me
she could steal but she could not rob

Chorus

[Hope this isn't too far wrong]


Martin (Ted) Hermary
Department of Sociology
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
e-mail: czth@musica.mcgill.ca

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