Dear One

‘Dear One’ is the second song on George Harrison’s seventh solo album Thirty Three & ⅓.

Written by Harrison during a holiday in the Virgin Islands in early 1976, the song was dedicated to Premavatar Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography Of A Yogi. Harrison was given a copy of the book in India in 1966 by Ravi Shankar’s brother.

I think this is the only song I’ve ever written with an A tuning. For a change it is nice tuning to open chords. I wrote the lyrics in 1976 on vacation in the Virgin Islands right before I started work on 33⅓, and they are directed to Paramhansa Yogananda – author of Autobiography Of A Yogi – and founder of the Self-Realisation Fellowship and a great influence on my life.

Aside from an organ part by Richard Tee, Harrison performs all instruments on ‘Dear One’. Along with ‘See Yourself’, it was one of two songs on Thirty Three & ⅓ dedicated to Yogananda.