"Golden Slumbers" the Beatles

[applegrove]

"Once there was a way,
To get back homeward.

Once there was a way
To get back home.

Sleep, pretty darling,
Dot not cry
And I will sing a lullaby.

Golden slumbers,
Fill your eyes
Smiles await you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling
Do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby.

Once there was a way
To get back homeward

Once there was a way
To get back home

Sleep, pretty darling
Do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby."

[nomorenomore08]

1. That whole side 2 'Abbey Road' suite is one of the greatest moments in pop music history.

They took a bunch of lightweight, half-finished songs that might not have worked so well individually, and created a masterpiece.

[applegrove]

2. Yes I love that album. Golden slumbers

is one of those songs that make me cry. Such pretty words. I heard it was an actual old time lullaby that they used. But I'm not sure.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

3. Agreed

It's amazing how all that managed to "Come Together"

[rurallib]

4. This was the lullaby for my two little girls

My wife had severe health problems with the little one.
So I would rock the girls to sleep every night singing "Golden Slumbers"

They are in their mid 30s now. And I have not been able to sing this song for a long time. I tear up and the throat gets clogged and I break down crying.
We had the kids and survived a very very hard time and Golden Slumbers was one of the stabilizing aspects.

I am crying thinking of it now.

[applegrove]

5. I go to that song whenever I'm grieving the loss of someone. When someone dies of old age,

why not a lullaby.

[In_The_Wind]

6. It's beautiful.

Thanks

[Boomerproud]

7. Beautiful.

Abbey Road never gets stale or old.

[Trajan]

8. Arguably the greatest Beatles album ...

Solid from end to end ...

Also - It marked the beginning of the progressive rock movement (for me and many others) ....

The song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", with it's delightful extended coda, had a powerful effect on me and my budding musician friends .... I have since learned - The 'I Want You' coda was the very last piece of music that the Beatles recorded as the Beatles ... a fitting end, I'll say ....

Furthermore; the side B series of connected songs set the tone for what was to follow ... Bands like Yes, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Genesis began to look at albums as a series of connected pieces that fit; one into the next, with some of the themes reintroduced in later sections - tying the whole side together into an organic whole ....

It was beautiful .. elegant ... and unified ....

And in the end ? ..... It's a fucking masterpiece ....

To wit:

[applegrove]

9. Yes. I think I have the Abby Road CD. I think. Been such a long while since I looked through

my CDs.