Rmatrix from Las VegasI always thought that it was The Beatles a form of an English Pubhouse Song.In an age of superstar ax men.he was playing Chet Atkins. Always singing like he had a nose full of snot. Kramo from Toronto, CanadaA truly awful song.Sort of like Raffi, but with cooler outfits. Carmen from Seattle, UsaTeaching music at the K-3 level, it's occurred to me that between this one and "Octopus's Garden" (both of which they seem to know from birth), until they're about 9 years old, kids must think that The Beatles were some old group that wrote songs for children.This is substantiated by the trippy, way in the movie, they play the turn of phrase, "Sea of green," and it goes very psychedelic. Gerry from Winston-salem, NcThe, "Sea of green" is not talking about money, it refers to the long standing, Dutch method of marijuana production in which the plant flowers continuously, not going back into the vegetative cycle, which would happen starting in early to mid Autumn.It seems that my perfect grammar may have been wasted. Gerry from Winston-salem, NcWow, some of the people here could use spell-check.When he listed it, the boys started singing this. Before that, our art teacher was listing the warm ups, and one of them was a submarine. Like once, I brought it up with my friend, and he started singing it. Bridget from CoThis seems to be popular when it comes to messing with Beatles songs.I had no idea! This is probably one of my favorite songs ever. I really couldn't believe that Ringo sings this song. Kate from CanadaThis is an amazing song.Joe from BrooklynBack in the 60's there was a popular pill called Pentobarbital, sold mainly in Britian where the beatles are from.ChloeJohn Lennon hated this song so much, that, he wrote a note to Paul McCartney saying "DISGUSTING!! SEE ME!".Claudio Lessa from Brasilia, BrazilWhat do the "sailors" say (scream, yell or whatever) at the end of the song? Could you transcribe that, please? Thank you!.McCartney used this technique on " Blackbird," and Lennon used it on " Dear Prudence." He also helped Lennon with another song written in India, " Julia," which John wrote about his mother. In February 1968, he joined the Beatles on their retreat to India, where he taught McCartney and Lennon the "clawhammer" guitar technique, where the picking hand strikes the strings in a downward motion with the back of the nail. This line is Donovan's best-known contribution to a Beatles song, as it's the most concrete, but it was simply adding a line he takes more pride in other Beatles songs he influenced on their shared musical journey. So I took his words and turned them around for him." In our interview with Donovan, he explained: "He already had those words to the song, but he seemed to have a hole in the song. The Scottish musician Donovan, a good friend of The Beatles, made a key contribution to this song, coming up with the line "Sky of blue, sea of green."Īfter he got the idea for the song, Paul McCartney dropped by Donovan's place and asked him for suggestions in hashing out a verse.
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