"There was a Guardian editorial in praise of Paul McCartney, and it gave as an example of his 'effortlessly fluent' lyricism the second line of 'Penny Lane', which it rendered thus:
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know
No, I said to myself, that's not right. And I Googled for confirmation. But instead of confirmation, I got disconfirmation and this:
No, I said to myself, that's not right. And I Googled for confirmation. But instead of confirmation, I got disconfirmation and this:
In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he's had the pleasure to know"
I thought it was "pleasure to have known" as well. It isn't
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