Not guilty, but one time, just for fun, we took Rod Stewart’s The Killing of Georgie, a song we unanimously agreed was too controversial for our station, and tried to edit into something we’d be comfortable playing. As I recall our final edit was something just over a minute long and mostly consisted of “Da da da da da da duh/ Da da da da da da duh/ Da da da da da da duh”
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The singer knows he can safely have sex with her, but she’s going away. She doesn’t care that he’s horny.
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She is having fun sexually, but discovers she is pregnant. It probably happened before before she left and could be there reason she left.
“Please Please Me” clearly refers to a blowjob
Don’t know if this was strictly Liverpool, but “A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the National Trust” (…consumed and subsequently defecated")
The “Ticket to Ride” story comes from journalist Don Short, and is almost certainly just John Lennon screwing with him:
“Rock and Roll Kootchie Koo” has the line: “Come on, little pussy, gonna do it to you.”
Did they ever crack the Top 40, though? I’ve never heard that Steely Dan played on the radio, and I’ve only heard “We Can Be Together,” played a few times, usually on college or independent stations.
My favorite in that regard was when Musical Youth used Dutchie as an intended oblique reference to marijuana, but everyone assumed it was an overt reference they didn’t know yet, so it became a term for a type of joint.
The song was a cover, and the original is called Pass the Kouchie, which was Rasta for a dope pipe. The Musical Youth version was a weak attempt at obscuring that fact.
Who’d figured that a genre whose name itself has been a euphemism for intercourse for over a century would have other, similar, euphemisms in lyrics. 
That’s why I used the word “literally” in reply #3.
pretty sure that is supposed to be to be “come on a little closer”
The Dan had several top 40 hits- Show Biz Kids peaked at #61.
Yeah, but it would seem to be a pun or play on words of “fish finger pie”. On a superficial reading, it might sound to British ears that the song’s narrator is describing the buying of four [quantity or money’s worth] of fish finger pie, perhaps at the fish and chips shop on Penny Lane. However, the number used is four, and we have four fingers on a hand, so that implies that the “finger” of “finger pie” could be understood as being the fingers of a hand. “Fishy”-smelling is a common descriptor trope of a vagina, and “finger pie” is a euphemism for female sexual stimulation through use of the fingers. So it all ties up together as a pun, and John Lennon was fond of puns, as evidenced by his book A Spaniard in the Works (cf. “a spanner in the works”).
“And tits doesn’t even belong on the list! It sounds like a snack. New Nabisco tits! Tater tits!”
As for ‘fish and finger pie’, if we’re going to censor that, what do we do with ‘Cat Scratch Fever’? Burn it in a holy ceremony?
I make the pussy purr with the stroke of my hand
They know they gettin’ it from me
They know just where to go
When they need their lovin’ man
They know I do it for free
I give 'em cat scratch fever
The entire song, including the title, is about finger pie.
I remember Musical Youth being on the terribly wholesome BBC kids show Blue Peter. The explanation for what a Dutchie was was unconvincing (some sort of bowl of food iirc) even for the young me.
“Pass the duchy on the left hand side” may also have been what kings once said when bestowing titles on their courtiers.
Man, I just read this thread while listening to some of Dinah Washington’s 1950s R&B records.
Look up the one where she phones her boyfriend late at night to come over and “fix her TV.” The two of them do it on EVERY channel.
That’s all well and good, but John didn’t write Penny Lane. Paul did.
You are right. But anyone watching the 1967 Penny Lane video could be fooled. Because John is definitely the coolest guy in it.
Either tripping balls, or at least completely stoned.
While primarily a McCartney composition, Lennon contributed to it, and likely wrote the ‘Four of fish and finger pie’ line. From the Beatles Bible:
It appears to have been hidden well enough to get past British censors. “I am the Walrus”, on the other hand, released a few months later, was banned by the BBC because of the following line, supposedly because of the word “knickers”:
Boy, you’ve been a naughty girl
You let your knickers down
The BBC also refused to broadcast the song “A Day in the Life” due to the line “I’d love to turn you on”, which they felt advocated drug use.