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Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
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Can Paul McCartney just rename this song ‘The Innuendo Song’ and get it over with mccartney-shrug_01_gif

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Beatlebug said
Can Paul McCartney just rename this song ‘The Innuendo Song’ and get it over with mccartney-shrug_01_gif

  

I think it’s a bit too up front to be the innuendo song.

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Ahhh Girl said
Why don’t we duet in the road?

  

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Kaniffee said

I think it’s a bit too up front to be the innuendo song.  

Fair point, but remember, ‘do it’ is technically innuendo, even though it’s the most obvious innuendo ever. But when I was a kid and I (obviously) didn’t know what connotations ‘do it’ had, ‘it’ could have meant anything to me.

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Hell, when you’re a kid, you don’t understand anything. I remember being about seven, mishearing some random people’s conversation, and informing my mom that those swim flipper thingies were used for ‘underwater sex.’ She nearly crashed the car. a-hard-days-night-paul-7

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When somebody says ‘no one will be watching us’, it almost certainly means that somebody will. Especially if your ‘dancing partner is one of the world’s most famous men in 1968. I’d suggest McCartney sing a re-written version from now on:

Why don’t we do it in a bed?

We can keep the curtains closed,

why don’t we do it in a bed?

 

Why don’t we do it in a bed?

We can lock the bedroom door,

why don’t we do it in a bed?

 

Why don’t we do it in a bed?

We can turn the lights off too,

why don’t we do it in a bed?

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Not too few people dislike this one, don’t they? I never really understood why exactly. It rocks hard, the vocal performance by McCartney is great and it is Pretty much the predecessor to Oh! Darling .

 

Mean comment incoming: If this short track was on Abbey Road and loosely connected to some similar tunes, people would love it. Looking at you, Polythene Pam and company. But on the White Album it’s filler, sure…

 

But I also think it could have been a bit longer, even if it were only 30 more seconds.

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It wouldn’t survive my “White Album as single disc” culling, but I do enjoy Paul’s R&B vocalizing, always did. 

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a-hard-days-night-ringo-8Ooo, I have to remember to redo that one of these days… I think this song would stay, though. It’s got excellent percussion and a seriously amazing vocal, even if the lyrics are… lacking.

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Haha back in 1986, during my first year of uni, and some months after first buying the White Album , I was listening in bed late at night, headphones on, and couldn’t help singing along.

Next morning, my roommate asks me if he was dreaming, or did he hear me repeatedly singing “We can do it in the road!” or something during the night.  paul-mccartney-facepalm_gif

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Lesson learned: don’t sing along with your late-night headphones listening a-hard-days-night-john-6 I have to restrain myself sometimes, I don’t want to wake my familoids up ahdn_george_05

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Haha I did the same thing last year when I was sleeping in our campervan outside my grandmother’s house because there wasn’t enough room.. I was singing along to Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Day’ under my breath (or so I thought) but as it turned out my whole family heard me paul-mccartney-facepalm_gifa-hard-days-night-john-6

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It’s a great rocker with a great vocal and flies past without overstaying its welcome. Yes the lyrics are not in-depth but it’s far better saying little than writing drivel like “I was accosted by a barker playing a simple tune upon his flute. Toot toot toot toot.”

I’m more puzzled by how take 5 sounds very different from the final version which came from take 5 (and might as well include take 4).

 

 

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Awww I liiiiike London Town a-hard-days-night-paul-7

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Awww I liiiiike London Town a-hard-days-night-paul-7

  

It has a few moments of being interesting but some of the lyrics would have been improved if Paul had eaten a tin of alphabetti spaghetti, vomited after digestion and went with what he first saw/read.

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^That sounds like an awesome way to write a song, akin to Bowie’s cut-up lyrics.

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