Mean Mr. Mustard

Mean Mr. Mustard 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
Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park

Shaves in the dark trying to save paper

Sleeps in a hole in the road

Saving up to buy 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

History
Recorded as one with Sun King, Mean Mr. Mustard was composed in India by John Lennon in Spring 1968. Mean Mr. Mustard was considered for inclusion on The White Album. A demo version was recorded in May 1968 at George Harrison’ s home Kinfauns and was released on Anthology 3 and some formats of the 50th anniversary reissue of The White Album. It was also played several times during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions, on January 8, 14, 23 and 25 1969.

Mean Mr. Mustard was based on a miserly man, John Alexander Mustard, about whom Lennon had read in the Daily Mirror on June 7, 1967. Mustard, a 65-year-old Scotsman, had been taken to a divorce court by his wife due to his meanness.