Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The Beatles

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Maxwell's Silver Hammer
By: The Beatles

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Duration:	3:24
Release Date:	1969 (Tim P. Ryan)
Lyrics By:	John Lennon / Paul McCartney (Tim P. Ryan)
Music By:	John Lennon / Paul McCartney (Tim P. Ryan)
Produced By:	George Martin (Tim P. Ryan)
Released By:	EMI-Parlophone (Tim P. Ryan)
Published By:	Northern Songs Ltd. (Stavro Arrgolus)
Licensing:	ASCAP #430194471
Keywords:	COURT, FANTASY, SCHOOL, VIOLENCE

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Joan was quizzical; studied pataphysical
Science in the home
Late nights all alone with a test tube
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine
Calls her on the phone
Can I take you out to the pictures, Joan?
But as she's getting ready to go
A knock comes on the door

Bang bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Bang bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead

Back in school again, Maxwell plays the fool again
Teacher gets annoyed
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant scene
She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away
So he waits behind
Writing fifty times I must not be so, oh, oh, oh
But when she turns her back on the boy
He creeps up from behind

Bang bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Bang bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead

P.C. thirty one said, 'We've caught a dirty one'
Maxwell stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures, oh, oh, oh, oh
Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free)
The judge does not agree and he tells them so, oh, oh, oh
But as the words are leaving his lips
A noise comes from behind

Bang bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon his head
Bang bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that he was dead
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Silver hammer man (Stavro Arrgolus)

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	Stavro Arrgolus Offline - Editor, MP3 - 07-20-10 08:38 AM - 15 years ago
	fiogf49gjkf0d Although I lean toward the ASCAP # first, as long as one of them is there, one need not replace one with the other. The point of all this is to ward off the lawyers.

	Offline - - 07-19-10 03:55 PM - 15 years ago
	fiogf49gjkf0d Please change licensing to ASCAP #430194471 - Thanks

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