6:01 JL: "Dogs were dogging, cats were catting. Birds were birding, Fish were fishing. Thence Pwllheli, went swimming" [Pwllheli, pron. "per-thelly", in Northern Wales. An odd little poem!] (from http://www.pootle.demon.co.uk/beatles/rn9.htm)
6:01 "Geoff" starting with Bulge and clarinet JL: The dogs were dogging, the cats were catting, the birds were birding, 6:05 JL: Wounded sounds JL: the fish were fishing, the men were mennning, the when for wimming [sic??]
Surely, a crazy little poem in one non-song (or anti-song), but hard to distinguish what does he relly say in the end.
Quoted from The_End, posted September 28, 2004, 3:03pm at here
Thanks for that Real
I must admit, I've never noticed that before - I'll have to give it another listen.
I didn't notice myself either; I was always thinking that the Revolution #9 is not really a song.... and that there is not much in it except for strange sounds and talking. But, as you can see, there are some interesting things in it!
1:00 JL: "Mrs Welsh wearing a pair of sun brown underpants"
1:10 JL: "about the shortage of grain in Hertfordshire. Everyone one of them knew that as time went by they'd get a little bit older and a little bit slower .... This was on the air force set thing"
1:20 JL: "manufacturing person who was always umpteen types of 'umpty dumpty ???? finders, yep ah diddly ... Peak District was leaving intending to pay for ..."
1:59-2:06 GH: "Who's to know? Who's to know?" JL: "colours for the season. Everybody who knew ..."
2:16 JL: "Pakistan ... also spoken for" GH: "every day through the business terms" JL: "had informed him on the third, and I, that unfortunately he was"
3:07 GH: "Every few days ..." JL: "in a pair of brown under" [edited away, clothes, pants?]
3:26 GH: "local doctors that are ??? this may seem" JL: "I have nobody's ..."
3:46 GH: "on Eaton, with the situation" JL: "They are standing still" GH: "upon a telegram from the"
4:04 GH: "to us played it false as the headmaster reported to" JL: "who could tell what he was saying, his voice was low and his eye was high and his eyes were glowing" GH: " ... Sunday, He really ... became a great deal ... "
4:22 JL: "on fire, his glasses were in t'safe, this was" GH: "into, which enabled him to move his"
5:03 JL: "certain, so the wife told him he'd better go to see a surgeon .... or what with the price .... yellow underclothes". JL: "So, any road, he went to see the dentist instead, who gave him a pair of teeth, which wasn't any good at all. So ... so instead of that he joined the bloody navy and went to sea."
5:37 JL: "in my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair. I am not in the mood for wearing"
6:01 JL: "Dogs were dogging, cats were catting. Birds were birding, Fish were fishing. Thence Pwllheli, went swimming"
[Pwllheli, pron. "per-thelly", in Northern Wales. An odd little poem!]
6:18 GH: "only to find the night watchman" JL: "onion soup" GH: "unaware of his presence in the building"
[Note: JL interjects "onion soup" at the point where GH says "unaware". I think (speculation) that this was some JL wordplay on what GH was about to say. In fact, I think you can hear GH begin to smile, esp. through the "presence" and "building"]
6:34 JL: "Industrial output, financial imbalance" GH: "Thrusting it between his shoulder blades" JL: "The Watusi, The Twist" GH: "Eldorado"
6:54 JL: "Take this brother, may it serve you well"
7:04 YO: "Maybe, it's not that, it's .... maybe, even then, expose yourself ..."
Quoted from real01, posted September 28, 2004, 2:51pm at here
So, in Revolution #9 John says at 6:01
6:01 JL: "Dogs were dogging, cats were catting. Birds were birding, Fish were fishing. Thence Pwllheli, went swimming" [Pwllheli, pron. "per-thelly", in Northern Wales. An odd little poem!] (from http://www.pootle.demon.co.uk/beatles/rn9.htm)
6:01 "Geoff" starting with Bulge and clarinet JL: The dogs were dogging, the cats were catting, the birds were birding, 6:05 JL: Wounded sounds JL: the fish were fishing, the men were mennning, the when for wimming [sic??]
I really like this nonsense poem. I don't agree with the first version.I think the Pwllheli is way off mark. The second version is pretty good. at the end I think he says :
"men were menning went swimming".
Incidentally something you can often hear in Rev 9 is George Martin saying "Geoff, can you put the red light on please?". It may be the only time we hear Martin on a Beatles record. Shame he didn't like the track!
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I actually like this track, not as a musical piece but as a sound collage - it's fascinating. Have you checked out the site that Real01 posted - it's amazingly detailed and well worth a look. I would love to have heard sound-clip illustrations of the points, but that is being VERY picky!
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