Get Back (No Pakistanis Version)
Get Back (No Pakistanis Version) Lyrics
Don't dig no Pakistanis taking all the people's jobs
[Chorus]
Oh, get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
[Verse 1]
Oh ne nu ne nu was a Puerto Rican born in na na na na na
All the folks around said "Boy, he a Mohican living in the U.S.A"
[Chorus]
Get back, oh get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Wooo!
[Guitar Solo & Vocalizing]
[Chorus]
Get back, oh get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
[Verse 2]
Sidi of the west was a Pakistani living in the mmmm..
All the folks around don't dig no Pakistanis taking all the people's jobs so
Get back, oh get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Wooo!
[Guitar Solo & Vocalizing]
[Chorus]
About
Just another catchy blues-rocker from the Beatles, right? Nope nope nopenopenope.
“Get Back” went through numerous iterations. (Many versions are publicly available, with the single version and the album version being the most well known.) In one of its earlier forms, “Get Back” was a brash political satire about Pakistani immigration.
McCartney has clarified that this was intended as a parody of racist attitudes. (For reference, see conservative politician Enoch Powell’s infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech, which ignited a wave of neo-Nazism in Britain — that unfortunately lingers to this day.) Given the touchy subject matter, releasing this song would have been ill-judged. Had this song been released, neo-Nazis might’ve embraced it unironically.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
When we were doing Let It Be, there were a couple of verses to “Get Back” which were actually not racist at all — they were anti-racist. There were a lot of stories in the newspapers then about Pakistanis crowding out flats — you know, living 16 to a room or whatever. So in one of the verses of “Get Back,” which we were making up on the set of Let It Be, one of the outtakes has something about ‘too many Pakistanis living in a council flat’ – that’s the line. Which to me was actually talking out against overcrowding for Pakistanis… If there was any group that was not racist, it was the Beatles.
—Paul McCartney
