"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Lyrics

by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Original Manuscript (1967)

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
with tangerine trees and marmalade skies
somebody calls you you answer quite slowly
a girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in your eyes
and she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
" . . " . . . . "

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Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
and you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

As Released by the Beatles (1967)

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds - aah.

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking-horse people eat marshmallow pies.
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high (high).

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds - aah.

Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking-glass ties.
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds - aah.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds - aah.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds (aah - ooo)
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.