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The Beatles – Only a Northern Song
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Written by George Harrison, this song was recorded in 1967 in the sessions for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, but was unused in the album. It was featured later in the 1968
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The Beatles – Only a Northern Song (Takes 3 & 12)
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[Verse 1] / If you're listening to this song / You may think the chords are going wrong / But they're not / I just wrote it like that / [Verse 2] / When you listen late at night
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The Beatles – Only a Northern Song Samples
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See all of “Only a Northern Song” by The Beatles’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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The Beatles – Glass Onion (LOVE Version) Samples
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See all of “Glass Onion (LOVE Version)” by The Beatles’s samples
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The Beatles – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LOVE Version) Samples
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See all of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LOVE Version)” by The Beatles’s samples
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The Beatles – I'm Only Sleeping (Rehearsal)
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[Instrumental]
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The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Take 5]
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[Intro: Paul McCartney] / One, two, three, four / Ow! Woo-hoo! / [Verse 1: Paul McCartney] / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Hope you all enjoy the show / Sgt. Pepper's
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The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever (Demo Sequence)
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[Verse 1 Attempt] / No one I think is in my tree / I mean it must be high or low / That is you can't, you know, tune in / Cannot do it, I cannot do it / [Verse 1] / No one I think
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The Beatles – She's a Woman (Live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo)
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[Verse 1] / My love don't give me presents / I know that she's no peasant / Only ever has to give me / Love forever and forever / My love don't give me presents / Turn me on when I
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The Beatles – Real Love
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Based on a 1979 demo by John Lennon, “Real Love” was reworked by the surviving Beatles in 1995 and released in 1996 as part of the Anthology project.
The song features Lennon’s
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The Beatles – I'm Only Sleeping (Take 1)
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[Spoken Intro: John Lennon] / "I'm Only Sleeping", take one! / [Verse 1: John Lennon & (Paul McCartney)] / When I wake up early in the morning / Lift my head, I'm still yawning
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The Beatles – Help! (Live on Blackpool Night Out)
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[Intro] / (Help!) I need somebody / (Help!) Not just anybody / (Help!) You know I need someone / (Help!) / [Verse 1] / When I was younger so much younger than today / I never
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The Beatles – Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby (Live at Shea Stadium)
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[Verse 1] / Well they took some honey from a tree / Dressed it up and they called it me / [Chorus] / Everybody's trying to be my baby / Everybody's trying to be my baby / Everybody
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The Beatles – Blackbird
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“Blackbird” is Paul McCartney’s hopeful essay on the Civil Rights Movement and the “End of Racism in America”.
The tune was inspired by J.S. Bach’s Bourrée in E minor, a well
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The Beatles – I Feel Fine (Live on Blackpool Night Out)
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[Verse 1] / Baby's good to me, you know / She's happy as can be, you know / She said so / I'm in love with her and I feel fine / [Verse 2] / Baby says she's mine, you know / She
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The Beatles – Rock and Roll Music (Live at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo)
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[Chorus] / Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music / Any old way you choose it / It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it / Any old time you use it / It's gotta be rock and
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~The BEATLES Clean-Up Project & Interactive Championship Tour~
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Ok, fam. I’ve been thinking about ways to get more people involved and working together to polish up stuff on the @rock-genius side of things, and I came up with a new initiative I’m hoping will pick up steam here.
I’d like to do this bi-weekly—that’s every two weeks, for the layman. It’s still a work in progress, but here goes nothin'…
I now present to you…
The Beatles Clean-Up Project & Interactive Championship Tour
The Beatles, of course, need no introduction—but it’s amazing to me just how much work needs to be done on their song pages across Genius. Here’s an example:
https://imgur.com/7ZSoulA
The first suggested song that appears on their profile is “Let It Be”—widely considered to be one of the greatest songs of all time. You’ll notice that this page has experienced some decent traffic, with 56 pyongs and an array of annotations going almost all the way back to the beginning of RapGenius, 8+ years ago.
Many Beatles song pages look similar to thi
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The Beatles – I'm Looking Through You (Take 1)
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[Verse 1] / I'm looking through you, where did you go? / I thought I knew you, what did I know? / You don't look different, but you have changed / I'm looking through you, you're
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The Beatles – The Fool On The Hill (Demo)
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Day after day alone on the hill / The man with the foolish grin / Is sitting perfectly still / But nobody wants to know him / They can see that he's just a fool / And he never
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The Beatles – Yesterday (Live on Blackpool Night Out)
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[Verse 1] / Yesterday / All my troubles seemed so far away / Now it looks as though they're here to stay / Oh, I believe in yesterday / [Verse 2] / Suddenly / I'm not half the man
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The Beatles – Yellow Submarine - Script
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[PROLOGUE] / NARRATOR: / Once upon a time, or maybe twice, there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland. Eighty thousand leagues beneath the sea it lay... or lie, I'm not too
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The Beatles – Yesterday
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“Yesterday” is the most covered song in history, with over 2,000 versions having been recorded. A spare, haunting song of lost love from the early Beatles catalog, it was sung
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The Beatles – Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (Takes 1 & 2)
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[Spoken Intro: Geoff Emerick, John Lennon, Paul McCartney] / "For the benefit of Mr. Kite, there will..." / “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite! This is take 1.” / “Being for the Benefit
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The Beatles – Hey Jude
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Originally titled “Hey Jules,” named after John Lennon’s son Julian, this song was written by Paul McCartney to comfort him during John and Cynthia’s divorce. John Lennon stated
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The Beatles – Lady Madonna (Alternate Mix / Anthology 2 Version)
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[Intro: Instrumental] / [Verse 1: Paul McCartney] / Lady Madonna, children at your feet / Wonder how you manage to make ends meet / Who finds the money when you pay the rent? / Did
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The Beatles – And Your Bird Can Sing (Take 2)
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(One, two, three, four) / [Verse 1] / You tell me that you've got everything you want / (You tell me that—thing you want) / And your bird can sing / But you don't get me / You don'
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The Beatles – You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (Anthology 2 version)
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You know my name / Look up the number / You know my name / Look up the number / You, you know, you know my name / You, you know, you know my name / You know my name / Look up the
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The Beatles – A Day In the Life (Takes 1, 2, 6 and Orchestra)
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[Spoken Intro: John Lennon] / "Dub the mic on the piano quite low this / Just keeping it like maracas, you know / You know those old pianos" / "Ok, we're on" / "Sugarplum fairy
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The Beatles – That Means a Lot (Take 1)
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[Chorus 1] / A friend says that your love won't mean a lot / And you know that your love is all you've got / At times things are so fine, and at times they're not / But when she
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The Beatles – Yesterday (Take 1)
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[Spoken Word: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney & Studio Technicians] / What key is it in? / What key is it in? / It'll be in F, for you / Yesterday / I'm in G, but it'
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The Beatles – Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (Take 7)
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John Lennon: This time, you get it in the middle of the song / [laughs] / I had to laugh myself, you know / Wild, wild / Smack em / Paul McCartney: One, two, one, two, three, four
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The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Mark 1, Take 1)
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[Verse 1] / Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream / It is not dying, it is not dying / [Verse 2] / Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void / It is shining, it is
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The Beatles – Let It Be
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One of The Beatles' many iconic ballads, written by McCartney. The level of repetition in the lyrics suggests this song was written quickly and through emotional inspiration
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The Beatles – You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (Takes 1, 2 & 5)
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One, two, three, one, two, three / Hold on, hold on / I was off on that one / Alright, I'm just gonna raise this so it's near the bass strings and the top string / Paul's broken a
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The Beatles – Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds (Takes 6, 7 & 8)
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[Verse 1] / Picture yourself in a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies / Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly / A girl with kaleidoscope eyes / [Pre-
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