Sun King

Sun King is a song by the English rock band The Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road, featured as part of The Abbey Road Medley.

Lyrics
Aaaaah

Here come the sun king

Here come the sun king

Everybody's laughing

Everybody's happy

Here come the sun king

Cuando para mucho mi amore de felice corazón

Mundo paparazzi mi amore chicka ferdy parasol

Questo obrigado tanta mucho que can eat it carousel

History
The second song in Abbey Road’s long medley, Sun King was written by John Lennon. It was recorded back-to-back with another of his compositions, Mean Mr. Mustard. Although Lennon most likely got the title from The Sun King, Nancy Mitford’s 1966 biography of the French King Louis XIV, the song descends into cod-Spanish, Italian and Portuguese nonsense, with the odd English phrase thrown in. In 2020, Paul McCartney expanded upon the meaning of ‘chicka ferdy’, saying that its meaning was more vulgar than Lennon had let on. Lennon played early versions of Sun King during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions at Twickenham, on January 2, 3 and 10 1969. He often segued the song into Don’t Let Me Down, as heard on the Fly On The Wall bonus disc with early copies of 2003’s Let It Be… Naked.

Sun King, which allegedly came to Lennon in a dream, opens with the sound of bells, bubbles and chimes, part of the cross-fade joining the song to the end of You Never Give Me Your Money. A guitar passage then begins, influenced by Fleetwood Mac’s 1969 instrumental hit Albatross. Part of the song’s middle section was reversed and retitled Gnik Nus on the 2006 album The Beatles: Love. The guitar intro of Sun King also appeared at the close of Octopus’s Garden on the same album.