Get Back (Single Version) Lyrics
Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
For some California grass
[Chorus]
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, Jojo
[Interlude]
Go home
[Chorus]
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, Jo
[Electric Piano Solo: Billy Preston]
[Verse 2]
Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can
Oh, get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, Loretta
[Guitar solo: John Lennon]
Hoo
Go home
[Chorus]
Oh, get back, yeah, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Yeah, get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Ooo
[Verse 3]
(Ooo, ow)
Get back, Loretta
Your mommy's waiting for you
Wearing her high-heel shoes
And her low-neck sweater
Get back home, Loretta
About
A lighthearted, fairly meaningless blues jam by Paul McCartney.
“Get Back” went through numerous iterations, many of which are publicly available. The two most noteworthy versions are the single version and the album version. In one of its earlier forms, “Get Back” was a satirical political tune, with lyrics including “too many Pakistanis living in a council flat”. McCartney later explained these lyrics by saying:
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.
John Lennon believe that “Get Back” was aimed at his lover, Yoko Ono, who had begun accompanying him to many of the Beatle’s recording sessions. Paul adamantly denies that this song was about Ono, but he’s admitted that her presence during recording sessions was slightly upsetting to him at the time.
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Get Back is Paul. That’s a better version of Lady Madonna. You know, a potboiler rewrite.
–John Lennon via All We Are Saying by David Sheff
The only one I didn’t see [as being potentially successful] was ‘Get Back.’ Yeah, because I just thought it was kinda' a little jam and […] I’d play it, and people would go, ‘Wow! I love that!’
—Paul McCartney via The Howard Stern Show 2013
(Taken from The Beatles Bible website)
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