You Never Give Me Your Money

Album: The Beatles, Abbey Road (1969), track 9
Instruments: Piano, Guitars, Vocal, Drum, Stereo, Studio Effects
Style: Rock
Features: Change in song tempo
Duration: 4:02
Modern Discovery: circa 1997-1998
Left Channel: Piano
Right Channel: Guitar drum
Vocal in both

I first heard this song in my last year of junior high school, eighth grade. So, I've always associated as a song about leaving a place, a song good for graduation. Here I'm at the edge of graduating from college, so this song is appropriate again. "Soon we'll be away from here, step on the gas and wipe that tear away" :'(

[Piano intro]
You never give me your money.
You only give me your funnnny paper.
and in the middle of negotiations
you breakdown

[double tracked harmony]
I never give you my number
I only give you my situation
and in the middle of investigation
I break down.

Parts of this melody are repeated in the song Carry That Weight, on this same album part of the "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End" Medley. I always thought it was weird, but poetic.

[up tempo, ragtime feel]
Out of college money spent
see no future, pay no rent
all the money's gone, nowhere to go

Any jobber got the sack
Monday morning turn it back
Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go

Haha, I hope this isn't the future.

But oh that magic feeling, nowhere to go
oh that magic feeling, nowhere to go
nowhere to go!

aaaaaaaaahhhhaahaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaahhhhaahaaaaaaaaa

aaaaaaaaahhhhaahaaaaaaaaa

[Guitar solo]
One sweet dream
Pick up the bags and get in the limousine

Soon we'll be away from here
step on the gas and wipe that tear away..

My favorite part of the song, in bliss. Magic feeling, one sweet dream, step on the gas and wipe that tear away. Good bye.

One sweet dream
came true, today
came true, today
came true, today

Yes it did, aha aha aha ha

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the children go to heaven
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the children go to heaven
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the children go to heaven
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the children go to heaven
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the children go to heaven
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the children go to heaven
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the children go to heaven
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the children go to heaven
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the children go to heaven

Bruce's alternate lyric was always "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all the bums go to seven eleven." ehehe The "aha aha aha" has a really neat effect with the vocals.

*this song is part of the "cricket medley" of Abbey Road"
You Never Give Me Your Money - Sun King - Mean Mr. Mustard - Polythene Pam - She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

*Just a little background on these Music appreciation posts. One of the classes I've been taking this quarter has taught how to examine music and give names to the parts that make a song up. Form, instrumentation, tempo, melody, harmony. So on top of what I've known before, the class has given a few enhancements, "upgrades" if you will, to how we can explain music and how it effects us.

This song is also fun to do as karaoke, but more on karaoke another time.. hehe.

Once there was a way.. to get back homeward/