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Sexy Sadie, what have you done?
You made a fool of everyone
You made a fool of everyone (wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa)
Sexy Sadie (wa wa wa wa), oh, what have you done? (wa wa wa wa)
(Wa wa wa wa)
Sexy Sadie (wa wa wa wa wa wa wa), you broke the rules
You laid it down for all to see
You laid it down for all to see (see see see see see see see see)
Sexy Sadie (see see see see), oh, you broke the rules (see see see see)
(Sexy Sadie, oh) One sunny day the world was waiting for a lover
She came along to turn on everyone
Sexy Sadie (sexy Sadie)
The greatest (she's the greatest) of them all (wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa)
Sexy Sadie, how did you know
The world was waiting just for you?
The world was waiting just for you (wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa)
Sexy Sadie (wa wa wa wa), oh, how did you know? (wa wa wa wa)
(Wa wa wa wa)
Sexy Sadie (wa wa wa wa wa wa waa), you'll get yours yet
However big you think you are
However big you think you are (wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa)
Sexy Sadie (wa wa wa wa), oh, you'll get yours yet (wa wa wa)
(Sexy Sadie) We gave her everything we owned just to sit at her table
Just a smile would lighten everything
Sexy Sadie (sexy Sadie)
She's the latest and the greatest (she's the greatest) of them all
(Sexy Sadie)
(She's the latest and the greatest of them all)
Woo
She made a fool of everyone
Sexy Sadie (Sexy Sadie)
However big you think you are
Sexy Sadie (Sexy Sadie)
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Apr 21, 2013 - 20:34 We be dancing... love it... |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Apr 06, 2013 - 18:40 bingo... love it... |
| scrubbrush (All lost in the supermarket) | Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 09:27 Everybody situated between my computer chair and monitor still love this song, though they're a little tired of some of the other songs on this brilliant double album. |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 23:07 Everybody in my church loves this song, and the whole double album... |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 17:47 johnjconn wrote: Never sure what Lennon was thinking on this song. Back in the day, I knew a girl named Sadie , she was a dog. I mean road kill ugly. No one would label her sexy. He wrote it about (his disillusionment with) the fella in the middle:  Thought bubble for Ringo: "I'll say I have to use the lavatory, then it's off to pub". |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Dec 02, 2012 - 06:12 johnjconn wrote: Never sure what Lennon was thinking on this song. Back in the day, I knew a girl named Sadie , she was a dog. I mean road kill ugly. No one would label her sexy. Same here. You know how you have one pet that stands out above all others during your lifetime? Well Sadie was a crazy Basset Hound that was always by my side for virtually all of my childhood into early adulthood. What a great dog, I hope she is rolling in poop in the great cow field in the sky. |
| jocelynsart | Posted: Dec 02, 2012 - 06:10 not to my taste but know I'm in the minority forever with these guys lol! |
| bluejay08003 | Posted: Sep 30, 2012 - 15:06 Stranglersfan wrote: This entire album is a 9 to me! As in "without 'Revolution 9,' it might be a 10!"? (Couldn't resist that one.) "Sexy Sadie" is a trifle to me, along with "Rocky Raccoon" and "Wild Honey Pie." All the same, I listen to albums the whole way through, and despite my best efforts, I didn't wear out my copy of the White Album. |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Sep 30, 2012 - 11:35 I remember visiting my cousin who had JUST brought this home, still wrapped...we opened it, looked at the notes, put it on the big console turntable (record palyer in those days) and were just blown away...ah, them wer't days. |
| oldviolin (Esse Quam Videri) | Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 22:36 LOVE IT...WHATEVER...SO SUE ME...CALABASH SHRIMPS |
| Scientist79 | Posted: Jul 13, 2012 - 02:56 Beatles4ever |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 11, 2012 - 11:06 This song is soooo sexy... love it... |
| soulcollision (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 11:28 yeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss!! |
| Stranglersfan (Revelstoke, B.C.) | Posted: Mar 24, 2012 - 18:14 This entire album is a 9 to me! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 24, 2012 - 18:14 marvelous... love it... |
| suesblues (Sydney, Australia) | Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 01:48 johnjconn wrote: Never sure what Lennon was thinking on this song. Back in the day, I knew a girl named Sadie , she was a dog. I mean road kill ugly. No one would label her sexy. well I once know a completely ugly dolt called john, I wonder if all johns are the same....  |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Feb 05, 2012 - 13:40 Never sure what Lennon was thinking on this song. Back in the day, I knew a girl named Sadie , she was a dog. I mean road kill ugly. No one would label her sexy. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 21, 2012 - 08:44 srose96 wrote: it just became even greater .. This song is awesome... love it... |
| mrdak (Middle GA) | Posted: Jan 04, 2012 - 18:47 Pure goodness |
| srose96 (grandma's house) | Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 16:34 romeotuma wrote: what a great song... love it... it just became even greater .. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 15:36 My parents freaked when they heard these lyrics. Whatever good will the Beatles had earned in their minds, probably only in contrast to those digusting Rolling Stones, was gone for years. |
| sillyjeff | Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 21:48 Midreaming may just be trying to stir the pot, or it may be her honest opinion about corporate boy band, and all she posted. It doesn't mean we have to berate her, although we know Sexy Sadie is a unique masterpiece in it's own right, not to mention everything the Beatles contributed, pioneered, etc. Most amazing band ever IMHO. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 09:38 midreaming wrote: So much blah blah blah over a corporate boy band - band. Just paste your dancing bananas and move on.. there's better stuff to waste time and words on. ...blAH blAHblAH blah blah blah .. blah.. artsy schmartsy. ‘can't even believe Van Gogh got mentioned anywhere near a Beatles song.. (shiv-v-v-ver-r-rr-rr) Kinkade and Barry Manilow fit pretty well though.. so you know.. I mean hats off for that I guess..  F - A - I - L |
| dorbach | Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 09:37 Thank you!!! you laid it down for all to see. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Oct 01, 2011 - 20:06 Everyone in my hotel room loves this song! |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 10:47 midreaming wrote: So much blah blah blah over a corporate boy band - band. Just paste your dancing bananas and move on.. there's better stuff to waste time and words on. ...blAH blAHblAH blah blah blah .. blah.. artsy schmartsy. ‘can't even believe Van Gogh got mentioned anywhere near a Beatles song.. (shiv-v-v-ver-r-rr-rr) Kinkade and Barry Manilow fit pretty well though.. so you know.. I mean hats off for that I guess.. Feel mostly very sad for you young laddie. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 10:40 classic Lennon... love it... |
| sunward (British Columbia) | Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 15:10 midreaming wrote: So much blah blah blah over a corporate boy band - band. Just paste your dancing bananas and move on.. there's better stuff to waste time and words on. ...blAH blAHblAH blah blah blah .. blah.. artsy schmartsy. ‘can't even believe Van Gogh got mentioned anywhere near a Beatles song.. (shiv-v-v-ver-r-rr-rr) Kinkade and Barry Manilow fit pretty well though.. so you know.. I mean hats off for that I guess.. This was pretty topical at the time. TM was big and Beatles had gone to India to sit at the lotus feet, (so to speak), only to be disappointed. I remember the shock when folks realized that Sexy Sadie was actually the Maharishi. Blah, blah, blah to you, perhaps—but certainly not to that generation. |
| (former member) | Posted: Jun 29, 2011 - 14:59 "This is what you get This is what you get This is what you get When you messss with us...." |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 27, 2011 - 10:04 what a great song... love it... |
| jam5ie76 | Posted: Apr 12, 2011 - 01:21 this morning has restored my faith in RP, a faith never completely failed. |
| midreaming | Posted: Feb 23, 2011 - 09:28 So much blah blah blah over a corporate boy band - band. Just paste your dancing bananas and move on.. there's better stuff to waste time and words on. ...blAH blAHblAH blah blah blah .. blah.. artsy schmartsy. ‘can't even believe Van Gogh got mentioned anywhere near a Beatles song.. (shiv-v-v-ver-r-rr-rr) Kinkade and Barry Manilow fit pretty well though.. so you know.. I mean hats off for that I guess.. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Dec 22, 2010 - 18:44 Rooney wrote: It's called artistry. You go beyond the personal to make it the universal. You make it everyone's experience, not just your own. It's what good writing and composing on all levels of creativity is. Might even apply to the fine arts as well.  Well, that's one explanation of "artistry", but not one I adhere to. One cannot make Art "universal" or "everyone's experience"; any attempt to do so would corrupt the innate purpose of it. There can be a marked difference between "Art" and "craft". If one makes a creative work which listeners, viewers, or readers can appreciate and/or relate to, then they have succeeded on that level, but that is not the ultimate responsibility of the artist. Barry Manilow has more universal appeal and recognition than Nick Drake does, and Thomas Kinkade probably has more of those things than Vincent Van Gogh does (certainly within their respective lifetimes). It is the job of an artist to work from the personal - technique and style are vehicles for that. I think I know part of what you're getting at though: this is a relatively "lesser-played" tune from The Beatles, and millions of people enjoy it - regardless of whether or not its inspiration came from an angry, personal memory of John Lennon's. |
| Rooney (Near Paradise) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 14:00 james_of_tucson wrote: In his personal letters and private interviews, you find that he was a gentleman, who knew how to choose his fights. It's not that he "had to" change the lyrics for fear of litigation, it's that he knew how to use the inspiration engendered by a negative experience to make something positive and enduring. John Lennon thought a great deal about this kind of thing, and walked the walk. It's called artistry. You go beyond the personal to make it the universal. You make it everyone's experience, not just your own. It's what good writing and composing on all levels of creativity is. Might even apply to the fine arts as well. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 13:55 james_of_tucson wrote: In his personal letters and private interviews, you find that he was a gentleman, who knew how to choose his fights. It's not that he "had to" change the lyrics for fear of litigation, it's that he knew how to use the inspiration engendered by a negative experience to make something positive and enduring. John Lennon thought a great deal about this kind of thing, and walked the walk. Bravo |
| ziakut (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 13:55 I miss the Lennon element...period. |
| Shaker (Canada) | Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 08:17 Ha Ha sirdroseph wrote: This song always reminds me of my childhood doggie, a lovable Basset Hound named of course, Sadie. My therapist says not to worry about it though. |
| james_of_tucson (Tucson AZ) | Posted: Aug 17, 2010 - 14:34 ksb wrote: I always thought this was about Marilyn Monroe. And why would Lennon change words to avoid a lawsuit from (even a false) guru? Sounds like folklore to me...  Edited By ksb at 10:55 pm on 5/19/2003In his personal letters and private interviews, you find that he was a gentleman, who knew how to choose his fights. It's not that he "had to" change the lyrics for fear of litigation, it's that he knew how to use the inspiration engendered by a negative experience to make something positive and enduring. John Lennon thought a great deal about this kind of thing, and walked the walk. |
| jimbaca (Albuquerque) | Posted: Aug 17, 2010 - 14:29 In the movie "Across the Universe," Sadie is really sexie! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Aug 17, 2010 - 14:28 This is such a great song... Lennon originally wanted to title the song "Maharishi", but the Beatles changed the title to "Sexy Sadie" at George Harrison's request. Lennon was disillusioned after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had allegedly made a sexual advance at one of the female members attending the course Maharishi was teaching at his ashram. (Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Cynthia Lennon later said that they thought the story, which had come from Alexis Mardas, had been fabricated.) Lennon once said of the song: "That was inspired by Maharishi. I wrote it when we had our bags packed and were leaving. It was the last piece I wrote before I left India. I just called him, 'Sexy Sadie,' instead of (sings) 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool...' I was just using the situation to write a song, rather calculatingly but also to express what I felt. I was leaving the Maharishi with a bad taste. You know, it seems that my partings are always not as nice as I'd like them to be." |
| lmic (Harmless Little Bunny) | Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 14:14 westslope wrote: The Beatles suggested boundaries for a social and cultural period that needed them. Yet one more reason why the band members were so great. Wow. This is one of the most insightful comments I've seen about the Beatles, here or anywhere. How interesting to consider that they were the soundtrack to so much debauchery, yet not really feeding it at all, unlike say the Stones with their Stray Cat Blues and such. The Lads really did have a moral center, expressed each in his own way—George gently, John angrily, &tc. More power to that. |
| gjr (boston, ma) | Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 20:08 "you made a fool of everyone........" great tune. period |
| Cruzan (AUSTIN, TX) | Posted: Mar 11, 2010 - 15:50 Not one of the Beatles better moments......... |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 09:16 federico wrote: come on! it cannot be better than coldplay, porcupine tree etc. oh no you didn't ~ LOL WTF |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 09:16 This is truly a great song... love it... |
| ThePoose | Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 09:15 Woody betrayed Mia a lot more than Sadie. Who will write a song about his malfeasance...or Roamin' Polanski's? top20 wrote: A quick google around reveals that Mia (and not her sister Prudence) was the lady behind the controversy ... except that nothing much really happened: One day the Maharishi invited her to meditate with him, alone in his cave-like meditation room in the basement of his bungalow. When they finished, and were standing up in the darkness, he wrapped his "hairy arms" around her in an embrace. The whole episode was blown up by a chap called Alex Mardis who wanted to drive a wedge between the Beatles and the Maharishi. Enjoy your googling to fill in the details. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 16:22 fantastic... |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 12:26 lemmoth wrote: Huh????? Yes, sir, i like the modern ones!! (Live Performances) |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 12:21 This song always reminds me of my childhood doggie, a lovable Basset Hound named of course, Sadie. My therapist says not to worry about it though. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 12:17 helgigermany wrote: Very nice tune!! But when i see the old live performances of them...??!! I cant stand that! Really bad! Huh????? |