John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

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Vinyl L.P · Apple Records · PCS 7124.
1970 · U.K.

 Back cover.


Inner sleeve.

Inner sleeve.

Labels.

Liner notes:

JOHN LENNON: GUITAR PIANO* VOCALS

YOKO ONO: WIND

RINGO STARR: DRUMS

KLAUS VOORMANN: BASS

PRODUCED: JOHN AND YOKO AND PHIL SPECTOR

ENGINEERS: PHIL MACDONALD, RICHARD LUSH, JOHN LICKIE, ANDY STEVENS AND EDDIE

COVER PHOTOGRAPH: DAN RICHTER

SLEEVE DESIGN: JOHN AND YOKO

TEA AND SYMPATHY: MAL EVANS

*BILLY PRESTON ON ‘GOD’ AND PHIL SPECTOR ON ‘LOVE’

All songs written by John Lennon.

John Lennon

Credits:

Producers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector.

Recorded: June 1970, 26 September - 23 October, 1970.

Studios:Abbey Road, London.

Released: 11 December, 1970.

Album lyrics:

Mother.

(Lennon)

 

Mother, you had me, but I never had you

I wanted you, you didn't want me

So I, I just got to tell you

Goodbye, goodbye

Father, you left me, but I never left you

I needed you, you didn't need me

So I, I just got to tell you

Goodbye, goodbye

Children, don't do what I have done

I couldn't walk and I tried to run

So I, I just got to tell you

Goodbye, goodbye

Mama don't go

Daddy come home...

Hold On.

(Lennon)

Hold on John, John hold on

It's gonna be alright

You gonna win the fight

Hold on Yoko, Yoko hold on

It's gonna be alright

You gonna make the flight

When you're by yourself

And there's no-one else

You just have yourself

And you tell yourself

Just to hold on

Cookie!

Hold on world, world hold on

It's gonna be alright

You gonna see the light

When you're one

Really one

Well, you get things done

Like they've never been done

So hold on

I Found Out.

(Lennon)

I told you before, stay away from my door

Don't give me that brother, brother, brother, brother

The freaks on the phone, won't leave me alone

So don't give me that brother, brother, brother, brother

No!

I, I found out!

I, I found out!

Now that I showed you what I been through

Don't take nobody's word what you can do

There ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky

Now that I found out I know I can cry

I, I found out!

I, I found out!

Some of you sitting there with your cock in your hand

Don't get you nowhere don't make you a man

I heard something 'bout my Ma and my Pa

They didn't want me so they made me a star

I, I found out!

I, I found out!

Old Hare Krishna got nothing on you

Just keep you crazy with nothing to do

Keep you occupied with pie in the sky

There ain't no guru who can see through your eyes

I, I found out!

I, I found out!

I seen through junkies, I been through it all

I seen religion from Jesus to Paul

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine

No one can harm you, feel your own pain

I, I found out!

I, I found this out!

I, I found out!

Working Class Hero.

(Lennon)

As soon as you're born they make you feel small

By giving you no time instead of it all

Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all

A working class hero is something to be

A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool

Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules

A working class hero is something to be

A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years

Then they expect you to pick a career

When you can't really function you're so full of fear

A working class hero is something to be

A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV

And you think you're so clever and classless and free

But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

A working class hero is something to be

A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still

But first you must learn how to smile as you kill

If you want to be like the folks on the hill

A working class hero is something to be

A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me

If you want to be a hero well just follow me

Isolation.

(Lennon)

People say we got it made

Don't they know we're so afraid?

Isolation

We're afraid to be alone

Everybody got to have a home

Isolation

Just a boy and a little girl

Trying to change the whole wide world

Isolation

The world is just a little town

Everybody trying to put us down

Isolation

I don't expect you to understand

After you've caused so much pain

But then again, you're not to blame

You're just a human, a victim of the insane

We're afraid of everyone

Afraid of the sun

Isolation

The sun will never disappear

But the world may not have many years

Isolation

Remember.

(Lennon)

Remember when you were young?

How the hero was never hung

Always got away

Remember how the man

Used to leave you empty handed?

Always, always let you down

If you ever change your mind

About leaving it all behind

Remember, remember, today

And don't feel sorry

The way it's gone

And don't you worry

'Bout what you've done

Just remember when you were small

How people seemed so tall

Always had their way

Do you remember your Ma and Pa

Just wishing for movie stardom

Always, always playing a part

If you ever feel so sad

And the whole world is driving you mad

Remember, remember, today

And don't feel sorry

'Bout the way it's gone

And don't you worry

'Bout what you've done

No, no, remember, remember

The fifth of November

Love.

(Lennon)

Love is real, real is love

Love is feeling, feeling love

Love is wanting to be loved

Love is touch, touch is love

Love is reaching, reaching love

Love is asking to be loved

Love is you

You and me

Love is knowing

We can be

Love is free, free is love

Love is living, living love

Love is needing to be loved

Well Well Well.

(Lennon)

Well, well, well, oh well

Well, well, well, oh well

I took my loved one out to dinner

So we could get a bite to eat

And though we both had been much thinner

She looked so beautiful I could eat her

Well, well, well, oh well

Well, well, well, oh well

I took my loved one to a big field

So we could watch the English sky

We both were nervous feeling guilty

And neither one of us knew just why

Well, well, well, oh well

Well, well, well, oh well

(repeat several times)

We sat and talked of revolution

Just like two liberals in the sun

We talked of women's liberation

And how the hell we could get things done

Well, well, well, oh well

Well, well, well, oh well

I took my loved one to a big field

So we could catch the English sky

We both were nervous feeling guilty

And neither one of us knew just why

Well, well, well, oh well

Well, well, well, oh well

Look At Me.

(Lennon)

Look at me

Who am I supposed to be?

Who am I supposed to be?

Look at me

What am I supposed to be?

What am I supposed to be?

Look at me

Oh my love, oh my love

Here I am

What am I supposed to do?

What am I supposed to do?

Here I am

What can I do for you?

What can I do for you?

Here I am

Oh my love, oh my love

Look at me, oh please look at me, my love

Here I am

Oh my love

Who am I?

Nobody knows but me

Nobody knows but me

Who am I?

Nobody else can see

Just you and me

Who are we?

Oh my love, oh my love, oh my love

God.

(Lennon)

God is a concept

By which we measure

Our pain

I'll say it again

God is a concept

By which we measure

Our pain

I don't believe in magic

I don't believe in I-ching

I don't believe in Bible

I don't believe in tarot

I don't believe in Hitler

I don't believe in Jesus

I don't believe in Kennedy

I don't believe in Buddha

I don't believe in Mantra

I don't believe in Gita

I don't believe in Yoga

I don't believe in kings

I don't believe in Elvis

I don't believe in Zimmerman

I don't believe in Beatles

I just believe in me

Yoko and me

And that's reality

The dream is over

What can I say?

The dream is over

Yesterday

I was the Dreamweaver

But now I'm reborn

I was the Walrus

But now I'm John

And so dear friends

You'll just have to carry on

The dream is over

My Mummy's Dead.

(Lennon)

My mummy's dead

I can't get it through my head

Though it's been so many years

My mummy's dead

I can't explain

So much pain

I could never show it

My mummy's dead

Other editions included on this site:

Vinyl:

• L.P U.S.A - Apple Records - SW 3372.
• L.P U.S.A - 2005 - Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab - MFSL 1-280.

Compact Disc:

• C.D U.K - 1988 - EMI / Parlophone Records - CDP 7 46770 2.

Cassette:

• Germany - Fame / EMI Records - 1A238 1575034.

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