(Mid Level) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth album by the English band The Beatles.  Released on 1 June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one in the United States. Time magazine declared it "a historic departure in the progress of music".

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 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Track 1. SGT Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

 It was twenty years ago ______

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to ______
They've been going in and out of _____
But they're guaranteed to raise a _______
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
We hope you will enjoy the ______
We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sit ______ and let the evening go
Sgt. Pepper's lonely, Sgt. Pepper's lonely
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
It's wonderful to be here
It's ________ a thrill
You're such a lovely audience
We'd like to take you home with us
We'd love to take you home

I don't really want to stop the show
But I thought that you _______ like to know
That the singer's going to sing a song
And he wants you all to sing ______
So let me introduce to you
The _____ and only Billy Shears
And Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Track 2: A little Help From My Friends

____ ____ ____ ______ if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing ____ of key
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm gonna ____ with a little help from my friends

What do I do when my _____ is away?
(Does it worry you to be alone?)
How do I feel by the ____ of the day?
(Are you sad because you're on your ____?)
No I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm I get high with a little help from my friends
Mm gonna try with a little help from my friends

(Do you need anybody?)
I need somebody to love
(Could it be anybody?)
I want somebody to love

(Would you _______ in a love at first sight?)
Yes I'm certain that it _______ all the time
(What do you ____ when you turn out the light?)
I can't tell you, but I know it's _____
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm I get high with a little help from my friends
Oh I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends

(Do you need anybody?)
I just need someone to love
(Could it be anybody?)
I want somebody to love

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm gonna try with a little help from my friends
Oh I get high with a little help from my friends
Yes I get by with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my friends

Track 3: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

__________ yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade _____
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope _____

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your _____
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's ____

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...

Follow her down to a bridge by a ________
Where rocking _____ people eat marshmallow ____
Everyone smiles as you drift past the _____
That grow so ________ high

Newspaper _____ appear on the shore
Waiting to _____ you away
Climb in the back with your head in the _____
And you're gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...

Picture yourself on a train in a _____
With Plasticine porters with looking-glass _____
________ someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds [fade out]

Track 4: Getting Better

It's getting better all the time

I used to get ____ at my school (No I can't complain)
The ______ who taught me weren't cool (No I can't complain)
You're holding me down (Oh), turning me round (Oh)
Filling me up with your ____ (Foolish rules)

I've got to _____ it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better _____ you've been mine

Me used to be angry young man
Me hiding me head in the ____
You gave me the word, I finally ____
I'm doing the best that I ____

I've got to admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine
Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better

I used to be cruel to my _____
I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she _____
Man I was mean but I'm ________ my scene
And I'm doing the best that I can (Ooh)

I admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
Yes I admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine
Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
Getting so much better all the time

Track 5: Fixing A Hole

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets ___
And stops my mind from _______
Where it will go

I'm filling the _______ that ran through the door
And kept my mind from wandering
Where it will go

And it really doesn't _____ if
I'm wrong I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong
See the people standing there
Who _______ and never win
And wonder why they don't get in my door

I'm painting my room in the _______ way
And when my mind is wandering
There I will go
Ooh ooh ooh ah ah
Hey, hey, hey, hey

And it really doesn't matter if
I'm wrong I'm right
Where I belong I'm right
Where I belong
Silly people run around
They worry me and never ask me
Why they don't get past my door

I'm taking the time for a ______ of things
That weren't important ______
And I still go
Ooh ooh ooh ah ah

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
Stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go oh
Where it will go oh

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go (fade out)

Track 6: She’s Leaving Home

Wednesday morning at _____ o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her ________ door
Leaving the _____ that she hoped would say more
She goes ___________ to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the __________ key
Stepping outside she is _____

She (We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (__________ most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money ______ buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years (Bye bye)

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's _______ there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband "Daddy our baby's gone
Why would she treat us so ________________?
How ______ she do this to me?"

She (We never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
Home (We ______ hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years (Bye bye)

Friday morning at ____ o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the ____________ she made
__________ a man from the motor trade

She (What did we do that was wrong)
Is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
Fun (_____ is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside that was always _______
For so many years (Bye bye)

She's leaving home
Bye bye