POLYTHENE PAM
(Lennon-McCartney)
1969


At the time, John said he had sung "Polythene Pam" in a thick Liverpool 
accent "because it was supposed to be about a mythical Liverpool scrubber 
dressed up in her jackboots and kilt."  Later he admitted that it was a 
composite of a character from their Cavern days known as Polythene Pat and a 
girl he'd met in 1963 with the British beat poet Royston Ellis.



Well you should see Polythene Pam
She's so good looking but she looks like a man
(Ah)
Yes you should see her in drag dressed in her polythene bag
(Ah)
Yes you should see Polythene Pam yeah, yeah, yeah



Get a dose of her in jackboots and kilt
She's killer diller when she's dressed to the hilt
(Ah)
She's the kind of a girl who makes the news of the world
(Ah)
Yes you could say she was attractively built yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, come on now okay, oh look out