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Ron Nasty said

@ewe2 said

Ron Nasty said

The Cast Iron Shore was the nickname for the banks of the Mersey in an area of south Liverpool where there was an iron foundry

This is what I and Wikipedia thought but according to Lewisohn it’s after St Michaels church, which is partly built of cast iron. Additionally the links Wikipedia rely on no longer exist and the site nowhere mentions an iron foundry.

I’d be interested in the Lewisohn quote if you have it, but have to say that I respectfully disagree with whatever logic he has used to come up with it.

From my ebook of Tune in: The Beatles: All These Years:

The Cast Iron Shore was in St. Michael in the Hamlet, situated just beyond the Dingle, heading toward Aigburth. A steep cliff showed children down to the banks of the tidal Mersey, a fatal but popular playground for more than a century. People assumed its name derived from the flotsam and jetsam of shipping washed up on the shore, but actually it was from St. Michael parish church, part-constructed of cast iron. Today, Otterspool Promenade and the site of Liverpool’s International Garden Festival in 1984 cover the Cazzy’s history, but the church is still open.

He doesn’t give a source.

Annadog40 said
Well you can have a room without a roof so I would still count it.

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof

sir walter raleigh said
This song is the the first evidence I present when trying to prove that John Lennon is a creative genius. Everybody knows of the Paul is Dead speculation, and poof, John writes a ‘clue song.’

The Paul Is Dead myth didn’t start until after this song came out. John’s intentions were not to drop a clue that Paul was dead. This is what John said about the line: “Well, that was a joke. The line was put in partly because I was feeling guilty because I was with Yoko and I was leaving Paul. I was trying – I don’t know. It’s a very perverse way of saying to Paul, you know, ‘Here, have this crumb, this illusion – this stroke, because I’m leaving’.”

sir walter raleigh said
The Paul is dead rumors hadn’t become widespread, but do you not think that some of the tidbits were intentional?

Paul is not dead, but all of the clues can’t be a coincidence. I think John was having fun with it the whole time. Part of his genius.   

No, I do not think that some of the tidbits were intentional unless they came after the Paul Is Dead hoax started. And if that was John’s intention, then why would he have never admitted to that? John once said that it could have just as well been “the fox terrier is Paul”, which means that “the walrus” has no secret meaning.

Also, none of the clues are a coincidence. People used what they had to make the most out of their argument. The clues were not placed by The Beatles (with the possible exception of How Do You Sleep?); the clues were created by the fans who made them up.

sir walter raleigh said
This song is the the first evidence I present when trying to prove that John Lennon is a creative genius. Everybody knows of the Paul is Dead speculation, and poof, John writes a ‘clue song.’

I love this song because of how interesting and weird the lyrics are, and the “oh yeah!” that transitions the verse to the chorus.  

Also the strings arrangement fits really well. The ending is kinda “what??” But it goes really well with the surrealistic lyrics and ambience.