She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

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"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"
"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" cover
Song by The Beatles
from the album Abbey Road
Released 26 September 1969
Recorded Abbey Road Studios
25 July-30 July 1969
Genre Rock
Length 1:57
Label Apple Records
Writer(s) Lennon/McCartney
Producer(s) George Martin
Music sample
Abbey Road track listing
Side one
  1. "Come Together"
  2. "Something"
  3. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
  4. "Oh! Darling"
  5. "Octopus's Garden"
  6. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
Side two
  1. "Here Comes the Sun"
  2. "Because"
  3. "You Never Give Me Your Money"
  4. "Sun King"
  5. "Mean Mr. Mustard"
  6. "Polythene Pam"
  7. "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"
  8. "Golden Slumbers"
  9. "Carry That Weight"
  10. "The End"
  11. "Her Majesty"

"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" is a song written by Paul McCartney (although credited to Lennon-McCartney) and performed by The Beatles on their album Abbey Road. The subject of the song is allegedly a real life event, with a fan climbing up to McCartney's bathroom window.[citation needed]

This song was performed directly after "Polythene Pam", the song on the preceding track, without pause. Allegedly, Paul plays lead guitar on this song, while George Harrison plays the bass part.

In 1969, Joe Cocker [1] performed a memorable version of this song at Woodstock and again with his Mad Dogs and Englishmen on tour the following year. In 1976, The Bee Gees covered the song for the ephemeral musical documentary All This and World War II.

In the 2006 DVD documentary The Classic Artists Series: The Moody Blues (DVD UK, released Oct 2006), Mike Pinder, the former keyboard player of Birmingham R&B band The Moody Blues, states that the inspiration for the song actually rests with an incident that happened to them - a groupie climbing into an open bathroom window in the bands' home and spending the night with band member Ray Thomas. The next day, Mike and Ray recounted the story to Paul, who - guitar in hand - strummed and sang 'She came in through the bathroom window.....'

Paul McCartney played "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" in his 2005 US Tour in combination with the song "Too Many People" from his solo album Ram

A slower, ethereal version of this song can be heard on the Anthology 3 CD.

  • The song is referenced in the 2006 film A Scanner Darkly, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick. One of the characters, paranoid about his house being broken into, says, "What if they come in through the back door or the bathroom window like that infamous Beatles song?" This line is also in the novel but does not reference the song.

  • Turner, Steve. A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song, Harper, New York: 1994, ISBN 0-06-095065-X
  • Brewer, Jon (director/producer). The Classic Artists Series: The Moody Blues, DVD UK Ltd, 2006, catalogue number: DVDCASMB002


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