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“Mean Mr. Mustard” is a song written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and performed by The Beatles on their album, Abbey Road. The Abbey Road version was recorded with “Sun King” in one continuous piece.

Written in India, Lennon said that the song was inspired by a newspaper story about a miser who concealed his cash wherever he could in order to prevent people from forcing him to spend it. He obviously didn’t think highly of the composition, as he described it in Anthology as “a bit of crap I wrote in India.”

A demo version of the song was recorded in May 1968 at Kinfauns, George Harrison’s home in Esher, and appears on Anthology 3. In that version, Mustard’s sister is named Shirley. Lennon changed it to Pam when he saw the opportunity to ease the segue into the song “Polythene Pam”, which follows “Mean Mr. Mustard” on the album. According to Lennon, “In ‘Mean Mr. Mustard’, I said ‘his sister Pam’—originally it was ‘his sister Shirley’ in the lyric. I changed it to Pam to make it sound like it had something to do with it.” Additionally, the original version of the song was a quieter acoustic rendition and was over 4 minutes in length.
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  • stramming

    I LUV JESUS aka THE BEATLES

    13 days ago

  • boehj

    top 10 beatles tunes.

    March 2012

  • LostChord_Mark

    what a great tune -- in the middle of so many other great tunes - - Abbey Road! always shout something obscene!

    February 2012

  • Mastah_Ev

    Abbey Road Medley

    November 2011

  • egroh08

    she's a go-getter

    October 2011

  • bostoncrab

    alfred jevons

    September 2011

  • shadowrunner87

    the bass sounds like king kong farting [4]

    May 2011

  • stejay2003

    one of my faves, love it

    April 2011

  • Brunanalyzed

    John.

    February 2011

  • Brunanalyzed

    THE DRUMS! RINGOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! <3

    February 2011

  • Leliel12

    "1:06 minutes of bliss" [8]

    November 2010

  • Oath_Police

    the bass sounds like king kong farting [3] Still a great song though. :P

    July 2010

  • ilovemuzik214

    the bass sounds like king kong farting [2]

    July 2010

  • Moluccella

    ¨¨˜"ª¤.¤ª"˜¨¨¯¯¨¨˜"ª¤ ♥ ¤ª"˜¨¨¯¯¨¨˜"ª¤.¤ª"˜¨¨

    May 2010

  • Retro_Saiyan

    1:06 minutes of bliss (Over 9000!)

    March 2010

  • bowie_fan87

    "6:66 minutes of blizz" [666]

    March 2010

  • Norwegian__Wood

    i love it so much.

    December 2009

  • lmbj

    tooo shorrrrt

    November 2009

  • Soyerz

    Such a mean old man...

    October 2009

  • jsnruf

    the bass sounds like king kong farting

    October 2009
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