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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)

2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)

3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)

2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)

3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)

4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)
2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)
3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)
4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano
5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)
2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)
3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)
4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano
5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )

6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Flying cross the desert on a TWA…)

GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty. 

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)
2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)
3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)
4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano
5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )
6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Flying cross the desert on a TWA…)
7. Press (Oklahoma was never like this -averages 1,300 feet above sea level-)

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)
2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)
3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)
4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano
5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )
6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Flying cross the desert on a TWA…)
7. Press (Oklahoma was never like this -averages 1,300 feet above sea level-)

8. I Am Your Singer (Someday, when we’re singing / We will fly away, going winging…)

Now today I find, you have changed your mind

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)
2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)
3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)
4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano
5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )
6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Flying cross the desert on a TWA…)
7. Press (Oklahoma was never like this -averages 1,300 feet above sea level-)
8. I Am Your Singer (Someday, when we’re singing / We will fly away, going winging…)
9. English Garden (Buttercups grow, high at the towers)

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)
2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)
3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)
4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano
5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )
6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Flying cross the desert on a TWA…)
7. Press (Oklahoma was never like this -averages 1,300 feet above sea level-)
8. I Am Your Singer (Someday, when we’re singing / We will fly away, going winging…)
9. English Garden (Buttercups grow, high at the towers)

10. I’m Only Sleeping (clouds)

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)

2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)

3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)

4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano

5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )

6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Flying cross the desert on a TWA…)

7. Press (Oklahoma was never like this -averages 1,300 feet above sea level-)

8. I Am Your Singer (Someday, when we’re singing / We will fly away, going winging…)

9. English Garden (Buttercups grow, high at the towers)

10. “…sitting here in Blue Jay Way ” [334m above sea level]

  

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I like the Blue Jay Way one, but someone already offered it in the Beatles version of this same challenge. Not sure if that disqualifies…

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

 

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)

2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)

3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)

4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano

5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )

6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Flying cross the desert on a TWA…)

7. Press (Oklahoma was never like this -averages 1,300 feet above sea level-)

8. I Am Your Singer (Someday, when we’re singing / We will fly away, going winging…)

9. English Garden (Buttercups grow, high at the towers)

10. I’m Only Sleeping (clouds)

11. Flying

  

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)

2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)

3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)

4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano

5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )

6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Flying cross the desert on a TWA…)

7. Press (Oklahoma was never like this -averages 1,300 feet above sea level-)

8. I Am Your Singer (Someday, when we’re singing / We will fly away, going winging…)

9. English Garden (Buttercups grow, high at the towers)

10. I’m Only Sleeping (clouds)

11. Flying

12. Oh Yoko (In the middle of a cloud)

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13 higher elevation references (higher than sea level) in Beatles songs — and including solo John/Paul/George/Ringo songs

1. Back Seat Of My Car (we can make it to Mexico City [city high on a plateau]…)

2. Working Class Hero (the folks on the hill)

3. Tug Of War (Stand on top of the mountain with our flag unfurled)

4. Soft-Hearted Hana (And hadn’t they just seen me up on Haleakala) – 10,000 ft Maui volcano

5. Happy With You (See an ice cold running stream / Rushing down the mountain) (echoes of Mother Nature’s Son )

6. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Flying cross the desert on a TWA…)

7. Press (Oklahoma was never like this -averages 1,300 feet above sea level-)

8. I Am Your Singer (Someday, when we’re singing / We will fly away, going winging…)

9. English Garden (Buttercups grow, high at the towers)

10. I’m Only Sleeping (clouds)

11. Flying

12. Oh Yoko (In the middle of a cloud)

13. Let The Rest Of The World Go By (Some place that’s known to God alone)

It’s freezing in the United States! How about 13 cold things? (Beatle or solo)

1. Here Comes The Sun (Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter)

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It’s freezing in the United States! How about 13 cold things? (Beatle or solo)

1. Here Comes The Sun (Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter)

2. Back In The USSR (Oh, show me ’round your snow-peaked mountains way down south)

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It’s freezing in the United States! How about 13 cold things? (Beatle or solo)

1. Here Comes The Sun (Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter)

2. Back In The USSR (Oh, show me ’round your snow-peaked mountains way down south)

3. Norwegian Wood (So, I lit a fire… — implying it was chilly)

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It’s freezing in the United States! How about 13 cold things? (Beatle or solo)

1. Here Comes The Sun (Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter)

2. Back In The USSR (Oh, show me ’round your snow-peaked mountains way down south)

3. Norwegian Wood (So, I lit a fire… — implying it was chilly)

4. Jealous Guy (I was shivering inside)

You and I have memories
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It’s freezing in the United States! How about 13 cold things? (Beatle or solo)

1. Here Comes The Sun (Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter)
2. Back In The USSR (Oh, show me ’round your snow-peaked mountains way down south)
3. Norwegian Wood (So, I lit a fire… — implying it was chilly)
4. Jealous Guy (I was shivering inside)

5. One After 909 (Come on baby, don’t be cold as ice)

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The love you take is equal to the love you make

 

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It’s freezing in the United States! How about 13 cold things? (Beatle or solo)

1. Here Comes The Sun (Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter)
2. Back In The USSR (Oh, show me ’round your snow-peaked mountains way down south)
3. Norwegian Wood (So, I lit a fire… — implying it was chilly)
4. Jealous Guy (I was shivering inside)
5. One After 909 (Come on baby, don’t be cold as ice)
6. Apple Scruffs (In the fog and in the rain) ~ in honor of Georgemas

You and I have memories
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It’s freezing in the United States! How about 13 cold things? (Beatle or solo)

1. Here Comes The Sun (Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter)
2. Back In The USSR (Oh, show me ’round your snow-peaked mountains way down south)
3. Norwegian Wood (So, I lit a fire… — implying it was chilly)
4. Jealous Guy (I was shivering inside)
5. One After 909 (Come on baby, don’t be cold as ice)
6. Apple Scruffs (In the fog and in the rain) ~ in honor of Georgemas

7. Cold Turkey

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It’s freezing in the United States! How about 13 cold things? (Beatle or solo)

1. Here Comes The Sun (Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter)
2. Back In The USSR (Oh, show me ’round your snow-peaked mountains way down south)
3. Norwegian Wood (So, I lit a fire… — implying it was chilly)
4. Jealous Guy (I was shivering inside)
5. One After 909 (Come on baby, don’t be cold as ice)
6. Apple Scruffs (In the fog and in the rain) ~ in honor of Georgemas

7. Cold Turkey

8. Taxman (If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat)

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It’s freezing in the United States! (And most of Canada ahdn_john_08_gif ) How about 13 cold things? (Beatle or solo)

1. Here Comes The Sun (Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter)
2. Back In The USSR (Oh, show me ’round your snow-peaked mountains way down south)
3. Norwegian Wood (So, I lit a fire… — implying it was chilly)
4. Jealous Guy (I was shivering inside)
5. One After 909 (Come on baby, don’t be cold as ice)
6. Apple Scruffs (In the fog and in the rain) ~ in honor of Georgemas

7. Cold Turkey

8. Taxman (If you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat)

9. Junior’s Farm (I was talking to an Eskimo/He was hoping for a fall of snow)

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