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Let me take you down,
’cause I’m going to
Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real
and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed,
misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone
but it all works out,
it doesn’t matter much to me.

Let me take you down,
’cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real
and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

No one I think is in my tree,
I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can’t you know tune in
but it’s all right,
that is I think it’s not too bad.

Let me take you down,
’cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real
and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Always know sometimes, think it’s me,
but you know I know when it’s a dream.
I think I know I mean ah ‘Yes’
but it’s all wrong,
that is I think I disagree.

Let me take you down,
’cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real
and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.

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“Strawberry Fields Forever” is a song by the English rock band The Beatles. The song was written by John Lennon and attributed to the Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership. It was inspired by Lennon’s memories of playing in the garden of a Salvation Army house named “Strawberry Field” near his childhood home.

“Strawberry Fields Forever” was intended for the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), as it was the first song recorded for it, but was instead released in February 1967 as a double A-side single with Paul McCartney’s “Penny Lane”. “Strawberry Fields Forever” reached number eight in the United States, with numerous critics describing it as one of the group’s best recordings. It is one of the defining works of the psychedelic rock genre and has been covered by many artists. The song was later included on the US Magical Mystery Tour LP (though not on the British double EP package of the same name). The Strawberry Fields memorial in New York City’s Central Park is named after the song.
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When manager Brian Epstein pressed Martin for a new Beatles’ single, Martin told Epstein that the group had recorded “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane”, which in Martin’s opinion were their two finest songs to date. Epstein said they would issue the songs as a double A-side single, as they had done with their previous single, “Yellow Submarine”/”Eleanor Rigby”. The single was released in the US on 13 February 1967, and in the United Kingdom on 17 February 1967. Following The Beatles’ philosophy that songs released on a single should not appear on new albums, both songs were ultimately left off Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, but Martin later admitted that this was a “dreadful mistake”.

“Penny Lane” reached number one in the US, while “Strawberry Fields Forever” peaked at number eight. In the US, both songs were included on the Magical Mystery Tour LP, which was released as a six-track double-EP in the UK.

Some vocalising by Lennon is faintly audible at the end of the song, picked up as leakage onto one of the drum microphones (close listening shows Lennon making other comments to Ringo). In the “Paul is Dead” hoax these were taken to be Lennon saying “I buried Paul.” In 1974, McCartney said, “That wasn’t ‘I buried Paul’ at all—that was John saying ‘cranberry sauce’. It was the end of Strawberry Fields. That’s John’s humour. John would say something totally out of sync, like cranberry sauce. If you don’t realise that John’s apt to say cranberry sauce when he feels like it, then you start to hear a funny little word there, and you think, ‘Aha!'”.

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