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11 October 2019
Hi guys
I’m new here and from the north of the UK (not Liverpool!). I’ve been a lifelong fan of the Beatles, my preferred era is post-touring 1966 when they advanced in the studio experiment phase- and left showbiz in their wake.
I’n their songs I’ve noticed three songs with swearing in- two apparently spontaneous and one ”hidden” lyric-
Girl (Rubber Soul , 1965) -chorus of ”tit, tit, tit…”
A Day In The Life (Sgt. Pepper , 1967) – in the final playout chord, someone whispers ”sh*t”
Hey Jude (single, 1968) – Just before the ‘Na-na-na’ chorus erupts 3/4mins in, Paul (or John) utters ”F**kin’ ‘ell!”
Are there any others?
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“…stupid bloody Tuesday” – I Am The Walrus .
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Here’s 2 that are undeniable:
“What they need’s a DAMN good whacking”, Piggies
“Cheeky BITCH”, Revolution 9
And here’s some that are debatable:
“Sie Leibt DICK”, Sie Liebt Dich (Spelled dich but The Beatles intentionally sung it as dick)
“Unless they try to play it too DARN fast”, Rock And Roll Music (Not really a bad word but rather a substitution for a worse one)
“TURNS ME ON when i get lonely”, She’s A Woman (In this context, turn me on means gets him an erection)
“Crabalocker fishwife, PORNOGRAPHIC priestess, boy you’ve been a naughty girl you let your KNICKERS down”, I Am The Walrus (Even once you realize that knickers isn’t a racial slur, the whole line is still very sexual in nature and uses sexual words with a sexual context)
“You get NAKED”, Revolution 9 (Not really a bad word but not the most appropriate one either)
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If we’re counting the Star-Club tapes, John introduces “Shimmy Like Kate” as “Shitty Shitty” (and sings that lyric in place of “Shimmy Shimmy” a few times). And Paul sings “…too much fuckin’ feet” in “Your Feets Too Big”
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John’s solo songs and demos are a goldmine for this thread, haha.
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I believe there’s a couple F-bombs I’m Working Class Hero …
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Does Fuh You count?
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Von Bontee said
If we’re counting the Star-Club tapes, John introduces “Shimmy Like Kate” as “Shitty Shitty” (and sings that lyric in place of “Shimmy Shimmy” a few times). And Paul sings “…too much fuckin’ feet” in “Your Feets Too Big”
…and he also tells a noisy patron or two to “piss off”.
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Dark Overlord said
… boy you’ve been a naughty girl you let your KNICKERS down”, I Am The Walrus (Even once you realize that knickers isn’t a racial slur…
I was reading this comment earlier and thought, how can anybody think ‘knickers’ is a racial slur – and then I realised you’d misheard the word.
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vonbontee said
Von Bontee said
If we’re counting the Star-Club tapes, John introduces “Shimmy Like Kate” as “Shitty Shitty” (and sings that lyric in place of “Shimmy Shimmy” a few times). And Paul sings “…too much fuckin’ feet” in “Your Feets Too Big”
…and he also tells a noisy patron or two to “piss off”.
Well if Paul and George would insist on singing too…
12.28am
24 June 2019
Not really swearing, but Penny Lane ‘s Four of fish and finger pies is quite smutty.
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50yearslate said
I believe there’s a couple F-bombs I’m Working Class Hero …
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And I Know there’s a couple F-bombs in Working Class Hero
There’s also a handful of F-Bombs in this Paul song
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8.45am
9 June 2020
At the end of “All Together Now “, around the sound of the honking horn, listen for the F-bomb. It sounds like someone saying it out of frustration.
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7 May 2017
Dark Overlord said
“Sie Leibt DICK”, Sie Liebt Dich (Spelled dich but The Beatles intentionally sung it as dick)
Is that confirmed? Because I think the german CH-sound is quite hard to pronounce for foreigners, e.g. Brits, so almost every Brit would probably say dick instead of dich.
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