１１、１９６８年マザーグース豊穣の年（その４）
⑫ Glass Onion (1968年9月 rec.) ジョン・レノン
マザーグース的脚韻引用
過去のビートルズナンバーを５曲も盛りこんだ作品。
I told you about strawberry fields.
You know the place where nothing is real.
Well here's another place you can go
Where everything flows.
Looking through the bent backed tulips
To see how the other half live
Looking through a glass onion.
I told you about the walrus and me, man.
You know that we're as close as can be, man.
Well here's another clue for you all
The walrus was Paul.
Standing on the cast iron shore, yeah.
Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet, yeah.
Looking through a glass onion.
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Looking through a glass onion.
I told you about the fool on the hill.
I tell you man he's living there still.
Well here's another place you can be.
Listen to me. Fixing a hole in the ocean
Trying to make a dove-tail joint, yeah
Looking through a glass onion.
・I told you about the fool on the hill
I tell you, man, he's living there still
hill と still で韻を踏んでいるところは、The Fool On The Hill同様、次のマザーグースによく似ている。
There was an old woman おばあさんがいた
Lived under ahill, 丘のふもとに 住んでいた
And if she's not gone もしも どこかへ 行っていなかったら
Shelives there still. 今でもそこに 住んでいる
