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The Beatles – Old Brown Shoe
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Released as the B-side for the single “The Ballad of John and Yoko”
All guitars, including the bass, were played by George Harrison. Paul instead played piano on this song, and
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The Beatles – Old Brown Shoe (Take 2)
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[George] One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / I want a love that's right / But right is only half of what's wrong / I want a short haired girl / Who sometimes wears it twice as long
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Gary Brooker – Old Brown Shoe
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I want a love that's right, right is only half of what's wrong / I want a short-haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long / Now I'm stepping out this old brown shoe, baby, I
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The Beatles – Old Brown Shoe (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I want a love that's right / But right is only half of what's wrong / I want a short haired girl / Who sometimes wears it twice as long / [Chorus 1] / Now I'm stepping
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George Harrison – Old Brown Shoe
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I want a love that's right but right is only half of what's wrong / I want a short haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long / Now I'm stepping out this old brown shoe, baby
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The Beatles – Medley: Rip It Up / Shake, Rattle and Roll / Blue Suede Shoes
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[Intro] / I don't care if I spent my dough / 'Night I'm gonna be one happy soul / [Verse 1] / Going to rock it up / Going to shake it up / Going to roll it up / Have them ball
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The Beatles – The Beatles' Third Christmas Record
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(All): (Singing) / All my troubles seemed so far away / Now it looks as though we're here to stay / Oh, I believe in yesterday / (R): Don't forget, Christmas is comin'. Oh, that
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The Beatles – Come Together
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“Come Together” is the opening track to Abbey Road, written by John Lennon and to be used as a campaign song for famed LSD enthusiast Timothy Leary, who was running for Governor of
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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 – Junk (Esher Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Motorcars, handlebars / Bicycles for two / Broken-hearted jubilee / Parachutes, army boots / Sleeping bags for two / [Mumbling] —boree / [Chorus] / [Mumbling] / [Verse
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The Beatles – Mean Mr. Mustard (2019 Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park / Shaves in the dark trying to save paper / Sleeps in a hole in the road / Saving up to buy some clothes / Keeps a ten-bob note
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The Beatles – Mean Mr. Mustard (Take 20)
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Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park / Shaves in the dark trying to save paper / Sleeps in a hole in the road, yes he does / Saving up to buy some clothes, yes he is / He keeps a
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The Beatles – Now and Then
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“Now And Then” was originally a demo written and recorded in 1977 by former Beatles' member John Lennon. It is the final song released under the name of The Beatles, featuring
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Genius Traducciones al Español – The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down (Traducción al Español)
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[Letra de "The Beatles - Don’t Let Me Down (Traducción al Español)"] / [Coro: John Lennon & Paul McCartney] / No me decepciones, no me decepciones / No me decepciones, no me
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The Beatles – Rain
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Much like Revolver’s “I’m Only Sleeping”, “Rain” found The Beatles exploring LSD-influenced feelings of detachment from the real world, and the belief that heightened consciousness
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The Beatles – Revolution
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The B-side of The Beatles' best selling single “Hey Jude”, “Revolution” has John Lennon expressing doubt in regard to some of the tactics used by the 1968 protests. While the song
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The Beatles – The Ballad of John and Yoko
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John Lennon’s uptempo ballad was written in Paris during his and Yoko’s honeymoon in 1969. It is the story of their wedding in Gibraltar, and through Paris to their “bed in” week
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The Beatles – Blue Suede Shoes
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You can knock me down / Slap my face / Slander my name / All over the place / Do anything that you want to do / But oh oh honey / Lay of them blue suede shoes / Now don't you step
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The Beatles – Lady Madonna
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“Lady Madonna” is a single released by the Beatles in 1968, with its B-side track as “The Inner Light”.
Paul McCartney says the song works as a tribute to women everywhere, as it
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The Beatles – Happiness is a Warm Gun
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“Happiness is a Warm Gun” was another one which was banned on the radio – they said it was about shooting up drugs. But they were advertising guns and I thought it was so crazy
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The Qworymen – Beatle Rap
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Paul: Hello, lads. Why don't we do a Buddy Holly number? / John: You know, you know my name, look up the number / George: Number nine...number nine... / John: What a shame, Mary
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The Beatles – A Day in the Life
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For “A Day in the Life,” John Lennon wrote the opening and closing sections, while McCartney contributed the bridge. For the climax, they hired an orchestra of 40 musicians
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The Beatles – Don't Let Me Down
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The B-side for the single “Get Back” was recorded in 1969. “Don’t Let Me Down” had multiple versions, but the most famous one was performed live on the roof of Apple Records
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The Beatles – Piggies (Esher Demo)
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[Spoken] / One / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Have you seen the little piggies / Crawling in the dirt / And for all the little piggies / Life is getting worse / Always
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Jim Croce – Bad Bad Leroy Brown
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Jim Croce’s 1973 song from the album Life and Times. The song topped the US pop chart in the summer of 1973 and was still there when Croce died in a plane crash in Louisiana in
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The Beatles – I Will (Take 1)
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[Verse 1] / Who knows how long I've loved you, yeah? / You know I love you still / Will I wait a lonely lifetime? / If you want me to, I will, hmm / [Verse 2] / You know if I ever
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