I'd like to be, under the sea In an octopus' garden in the shade He'd let us in, knows where we've been in his octupus' garden, in the shade. I'd ask my friends to come and see An octopus' garden with me I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus' garden in the shade. We would be warm, below the storm In our little hideaway beneath the waves Resting our head, on the sea bed In an octopus' garden near a cave We would sing and dance around because we know we can't be found I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus' garden in the shade We would shout(out) and swim about The coral that lies beneath the waves (Lies beneath the ocean waves) Oh what joy for every girl and boy Knowing they're happy and they're safe (Happy and they're safe) We would be so happy you and me No one there to tell us what to do I'd like to be under the sea In an octopus' garden with you In an octupus' garden with you In an octupus' garden with you. "Octopus's Garden" was released on The Beatles' last album, Abbey Road in October 1969. The album is extraordinary for many reasons, not the least of which is that the band had been rapidly becoming undone by the time it was recorded. How truly amazing that this record captures such brilliance, The Beatles at the pinnacle of their powers when they were becoming so fractured and distant as band mates. That this band was seriously coming apart at the seams, is readily apparent as anyone who has ever sat thorough any of the filmed hours of their bleak, cold and joyless Let It Be sessions. The members of the band as captured in the Let It Be film didn't look like they could much stand being in the same room with each other, much less record an album together? However, just a few months later they not only made another record together....they made a masterpiece, possible the greatest one they ever recorded. Rolling Stone placed the album at number 14 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2009, readers of the magazine also named Abbey Road the greatest Beatles album. So, even running of fumes, The Beatles were destined to exit with an album that produced as loud a bang as the one they entered with! The video is pretty heavy on Abbey Road cover art and other late period Beatles photographs manipulated in Photoshop and then used in with various mask effects of the fish, and of course, that awesome little octopus scuttling across the ocean floor.....he's a star! (Huge thanks to BBC photographers and producers of Planet Earth for these little clips to be used to make something new.....watch the series if you haven't seen it, easily among the greatest ever filmed!). My previous video, for Bryan Ferry's "Is Your Love Strong Enough?", incorporated some of the swirling fish and of course I remembered the octopus sequence and thought I try and work up "Octopus's Garden" as I'd only one The Beatles video so far ("Long, Long, Long") and was way overdue to do a second one. I hope you enjoy the effort for this fun, classic tune!