SOME BEATLES’ SNIPPETS TO ILLUSTRATE FIGURES OF SPEECH

1)Happiness is a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun
When I hold you in my arms
And I feel my finger on your trigger
I know no one can do me no harm
Because happiness is a warm gun.

2)I’m a loser, I and lost someone who’s near to me
I’m a loser, and I’m not what I appear to be
Although I laugh and I act like a clown
Beneath this mask I’m wearing a frown
My tears are falling like rain from the sky
Is it for her or myself that I cry?

3)In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he’s had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say ‘Hello’.
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
The little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a mac
In 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.

4)I wake to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer: let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom: let it be.

5)I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made his grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph.
He blew his mind out in a car.
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords.

6)I told that girl that my prospects were good
She said: baby, it’s understood.
Working for peanuts is all very fine
But I can show you a better time.
Baby, you can drive my car
Yes, I’m gonna be a star
Baby, you can drive my car
And maybe I’ll love you.
Beep beep beep beep, yeah!

7)You say yes, I say no
You say stop, I say go, go go. Oh, no.
You say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello
I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello.
I say high, you say low
You say why and I say I don’t know, oh no.

8)Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It’s easy!
There’s nothing you can make that can’t be made
No one you can save that can’t be saved
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be in time. It’s easy!

9)Like a rolling stone / Like a rolling stone / Like the FBI and the CIA and the BBC… BB King / And Doris Day.

10) Oh, darling, please believe me / I’ll never do you no harm
Oh, darling, if you leave me / I’ll never make it alone
Believe me when I beg you / Don’t ever leave me alone.

11)Lady Madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet
Who finds the money when you pay the rent?
Did you think that money was heaven sent?
Friday night arrives without a suitcase
Sunday morning creeping like a nun.