Mean Mr. Mustard

By John T. Marck

Written by Lennon, this song was inspired by a newspaper article about an old miser who would conceal his cash wherever he could hide it, to prevent others from forcing him to spent it. Another inspiration was a "bag lady," that Lennon observed one day who used to hang out in Hyde Park near Kinightsbridge. She kept all her possessions in a plastic bag and sleep in the park.

Mean Mr. Mustard sleeps in the park, shaves in the dark, tryin' to save paper

Sleeps in a hole in the road, saving up to buy him some clothes Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose,

such a mean old man, such a mean old man

His sister Pam works in a shop she never stops, she's a go getter

Takes him out to look at the Queen, only place that he's ever been

Always shouts out something obscene, such a dirty old man,

dirty old man

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