You Never Give Me Your Money

You Never Give Me Your Money 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
You never give me your money

You only give me your funny paper

And in the middle of negotiations

You break down

I never give you my number

I only give you my situation

And in the middle of investigation

I break down

Out of college, money spent

See no future, pay no rent

All the money's gone, nowhere to go

Any jobber got the sack

Monday morning, turning back

Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go

But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go

Oh, that magic feeling

Nowhere to go, nowhere to go

One sweet dream

Pick up the bags and get in the limousine

Soon we'll be away from here

Step on the gas and wipe that tear away

One sweet dream came true today

Came true today

Came true today (yes, it did)

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All good children go to Heaven

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All good children go to Heaven

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All good children go to Heaven

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All good children go to Heaven

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All good children go to Heaven

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All good children go to Heaven

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven

All good children go to Heaven

History
A lament about The Beatles’ business wranglings of early 1969, You Never Give Me Your Money was written by Paul McCartney and was the genesis of the long medley that dominated the second half of the Abbey Road album. The song is made up of a number of disparate parts, joined together in the manner of John Lennon’s Happiness Is A Warm Gun. In McCartney’s 1969 notebook three separate titles were listed; 'You Never Give Me Your Money', 'Out Of College’ and ‘One Sweet Dream’.

The first part was written in New York City in late March or early April 1969. It begins with a thinly-veiled protest at the influence of Allen Klein, whom McCartney profoundly distrusted. The second part, “Out of college, money spent…”, is a fondly nostalgic look back to The Beatles’ earliest days, with a boogie-woogie backing led by McCartney on piano. Wistfully recalling the days when the group yearned to be “toppermost of the poppermost”, having left college with no money and few job prospects, it describes “that magic feeling, nowhere to go.” In his notebook containing the original lyrics, McCartney wrote “knowwhere to go” with the k crossed out, indicating that he was considering the phrase “know where to go” instead.