Mean Mr. Mustard
Lennon/McCartney

Lyrics:
Mean Mr. Mustard sleeps in the park
shaves in the dark, tries 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 		Availability:
Abbey Road (CD)
Anthology 3 (CD)
Abbey Road (UK)
Abbey Road (US)

Lead Singer: John

Recording: 7/24/69, 7/25/69, 7/29/69
Mixing: 7/30/69, 8/14/69, 8/21/69
Length: 1:06
Take: 35

What Goes On? Anomalies

0:30-End * NEW *
Up to here the tambourine playing was solid. But, from 0:24 onwards, as Kent Rodway put it, " for the last half of the song, it fades out, quits, hits out of beat, overall, a very poor effort. Or perhaps they cut it and meant it that way..." In fact, on listening to it, what is actually happening is that the tambourine fades down every time Paul adds his backing vocal lines, beginning with two "Mean old man" lines, and then for every line of vocals onward where Paul joins in on harmony. This seems like a compressor problem, everytime the vocal comes in (louder than the tambourine) it drives down the level of the tambourine.
Note: I did not write or compile these anomalies. Please don't email me with new anomalies and please read the WGO Info page.

Notes:

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