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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Elton John

Album: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

genre: Psychedelic Rock

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
Ahh

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
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ahh

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

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ahh

Photo Credit: Wikipedia

Lyrics added by Bianca G.

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Originally the song belonged to 'The Beatles', which was on the 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album.
Song details
  • Co-Production: Gus Dudgeon
  • Composition: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  • Vocals: Elton John
  • Release Date: 18 November 1974
Elton's version was certified Gold by the RIAA in January 1975. Lennon made a promise to Elton that if 'Whatever Gets You Thru the Night' became no.1 single, he will attend him at Madison Square Garden. In November 1974 the two artists performed together 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Whatever Gets You thru the Night' and 'I Saw Her Standing There' as the song peaked no 1 in the charts. It's a bonus track on the 1995 Mercury reissue, and it was also included on the 1996 Rocket reissue.