YELLOW SUBMARINE (Lennon-McCartney) 1966 While many have attempted to furnish it with some mystic or drug related meaning, Paul's "Yellow Submarine", sung by Ringo, was simply intended to be a children's song. As such, as Paul says, it had to be "...very easy - there isn't a single big word." "Yellow Submarine" appeared on the flip side of "Eleanor Rigby", providing the sharpest possible contrast to that song and evidence of the Beatles new found freedom to please themselves. Paul McCartney surely succeeded in his original aim, as there can be few children in the western world who are not familiar with "Yellow Submarine". In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his live in the land of yellow submarines So we sailed up to the sun 'til we found the sea of green And we lived beneath the waves in our yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine And our friends are all aboad, many more of them live next door And the band begins to play We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine Full speed ahead Mr Perkins, full speed ahead Full speed ahead Perkins, hot potato, hot potato, alright go As we live a life of ease (life of ease) everyone of us (everyone of us) Has all we need (has all we need) Sky of blue (sky of blue) and sea of green (sea of green) In our yellow (in our yellow) submarine (submarine ah ha) We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine