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3.50am
7 November 2022
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Ultimate Guitar has an amusing clerical error:
“…in the good and bad books that I have read”
Isn’t John actually singing
“…in the good paperback books that I have read”
?
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5.09am
6 May 2018
Offline Sea Belt said
Ultimate Guitar has an amusing clerical error:“…in the good and bad books that I have read”
Isn’t John actually singing
“…in the good paperback books that I have read”
?
I think the lyric is: “in the good and the bad books that I have read”
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Offline I’ve always heard and seen the line as “in the good and the bad books that I have read.”
Here’s the Misheard Lyrics thread, @Sea Belt, https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..rd-lyrics/ 
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30 August 2021
Offline Ahhh Girl said
I’ve always heard and seen the line as “in the good and the bad books that I have read.”
That’s what I’ve always heard.
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7 November 2022
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Ahhh Girl said
I’ve always heard and seen the line as “in the good and the bad books that I have read.”
That’s what I’ve always heard.
The second “the” is important. Google says “in the good and bad books” which doesn’t add up syllable wise. But I can hear “in the good and the bad books that I have read.” On closer listening, I can’t hear a crucial “paper” which would be needed for my opinion I’ve had all these years. I just never listened closely enough I guess.
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6 August 2015
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Mr. Moonlight said
Ahhh Girl said
I’ve always heard and seen the line as “in the good and the bad books that I have read.”
That’s what I’ve always heard.
The second “the” is important. Google says “in the good and bad books” which doesn’t add up syllable wise. But I can hear “in the good and the bad books that I have read.” On closer listening, I can’t hear a crucial “paper” which would be needed for my opinion I’ve had all these years. I just never listened closely enough I guess.
Yes, it’s obviously “In the good and the bad books that I have read”.
“Good paperback books” is a funny mistake, but it doesn’t make any sense.
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I think it makes a kind of sense, but it doesn’t sound a thing like “paperbacks” at all to me. (Never understood people hearing “I buried Paul” either – they can’t hear the two prominent ‘s’-es in “sauce”??)
Very cool aspect about this song (one of many cool things) is how they mix 8-bar verses with a 12-bar refrain – it’s like John can’t wait to race through a verse so he can get to the messianic chorus faster.
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