"Eleanor Rigby" Lyrics

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Original Manuscript (1966)

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
in the church where a wedding
has been
lives in a dream.

Waits at the window, wearing the face
that she keeps in a jar by the door
who is it for?

All the lonely . . . . . . etc.

Father McKenzie, writing the words of a
sermon that no-one will hear
no-one comes near.

Look at him working, darning his
socks in the night when there's
nobody there, what does he care?

All the lonely people . . . . . . .

Ah look at all the lonely people

Paul McCartney



As Released by the Beatles (1966)

Aah, look at all the lonely people.
Aah, look at all the lonely people.

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church
Where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream.
Waits at the window
Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon
That no-one will hear
No-one comes near.
Look at him working
Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Aah, look at all the lonely people.
Aah, look at all the lonely people.

Eleanor Rigby died in the church
And was buried along with her name
Nobody came.
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands
As he walks from the grave
No-one was saved.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
((Aah, look at all the lonely people.))
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
((Aah, look at all the lonely people.))