Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Elton John

Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Released as a UK single in November, 1974



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



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 you head in the clouds

And you're gone



Lucy in the sky with diamonds



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

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(c) 1974 Northern Songs Limited