Mary Had A Little Lamb | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

Released: 5 May 1972 (UK), 29 May 1972 (US)

Personnel

Paul McCartney: vocals, piano
Linda McCartney, Heather McCartney, Mary McCartney: vocals
Denny Laine: bass guitar
Henry McCullough: mandolin
Denny Seiwell: drums

Wings’ second single, ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’, was based on the nursery rhyme of the same name. See more…

I do things that aren’t necessarily very carefully thought out. Now, you know, I’ve just got three kids over the last few years, and when I am sitting at home playing at the piano my audience a lot of the time is the kids. I just wrote that one up, the words were already written, you know, I just found out what the words to the nursery rhyme were, wrote a little tune up around it, went and recorded it. I had an idea in my head to find out what the words to the original nursery rhyme were.