Yer Blues
Yes, I'm lonely wanna die.
Yes, I'm lonely wanna die.
If I ain't dead already, ooh,
girl, you know the reason why.
In the morning, wanna die.
In the evening, wanna die.
If I ain't dead already, ooh,
girl, you know the reason why.
My mother was of the sky.
My father was of the earth.
But I am of the universe
and you know what that's worth.
I'm lonely, wanna die.
If I ain't dead already, ooh,
girl, you know the reason why.
The eagle picks my eye.
The worm he licks my bones.
I feel so suicidal
just like Dylan's Mister Jones.
Lonely, wanna die.
If I ain't dead already, ooh,
girl, you know the reason why.
Black clouds cross'd my mind.
Blue mist round my soul,
I feel so suicidal
even hate my rock and roll,
Wanna die. Yeah, wanna die.
If I ain't dead already, ooh,
girl, you know the reason why.
Facts
Wikipedia
- Name
- Yer Blues
- Artist
- The Beatles
- Album
- The Beatles
- Cover
- The White Album.svg
- Released
- 22 November 1968
- track_no
- 2 of disc 2
- Recorded
- 13 August 1968
- Genre
- Blues-rock, Hard rock
- Length
- 4:01 (stereo version)
4:12 (mono version) - Writer
- Lennon/McCartney
- Label
- Apple Records
- Producer
- George Martin
- Tracks
- Side one #"Back in the U.S.S.R." #"Dear Prudence" #"Glass Onion" #"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" #"Wild Honey Pie" #"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" #"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" #"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Side two #"Martha My Dear" #"I'm So Tired" #"Blackbird" #"Piggies" #"Rocky Raccoon" #"Don't Pass Me By" #"Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" #"I Will" #"Julia" Side three #"Birthday" #"Yer Blues" #"Mother Nature's Son" #"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" #"Sexy Sadie" #"Helter Skelter" #"Long, Long, Long" Side four #"Revolution 1" #"Honey Pie" #"Savoy Truffle" #"Cry Baby Cry" #"Revolution 9" #"Good Night"
Recording
the Beatles Anthology series, Ringo Starr affectionately recalls recording this song in the stripped-down conditions, saying it was like the old days of Beatles live performances. The stripped-down, bluesy nature of the song bears similarity to much of Lennon's early solo output, including "Cold Turkey" and his 1970 John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album and marks a retreat from Lennon's concern with studio experimentation that marked such songs as "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Strawberry Fields Forever".
Performance
The Beatles came out in late 1968, Lennon performed "Yer Blues" at The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus with a supergroup dubbed the Dirty Mac, consisting of himself, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Keith Richards on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. The performance was followed with a boogie instrumental jam called "Whole Lotta Yoko", featuring dissonant avant-garde violinist Ivry Gitlis and vocals by Yoko Ono. The recording was never broadcast, and for decades the performance was only available on bootleg, but it finally came out officially on both CD and video in 1996. Lennon's performance with "The Dirty Mac" was his first live performance since the Beatles' last concert in 1966 and may have contributed to his renewed enthusiasm for live performance in 1969 (see "Give Peace a Chance" and Live Peace in Toronto).
Comments
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beatlesbiggestfan!!! on 25th Mar 11:
“one time when i heard this song i was like "maybe John didnt get shot... by somebody else..." but i doubt it :P”
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beatles2one on 19th Dec 10:
“John speaks the painful truth as always....Dig It!”
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tomibeatle on 7th Dec 10:
“Very good song!”
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the carpenter on 25th Jun 10:
“He wrote this song because the beatles were breaking up, his marrage with Cynthia was at an end, and Brian Epstien was dead.”
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porterguy on 22nd May 10:
“the beatles did a good job trying the blues on”
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Paul+George+John+Ringo= Me on 5th Mar 10:
“For some reson I though this was I'm So Tired!”
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Iamthelawlrus on 14th Feb 10:
“Such a fun song to cover.”
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robin p. melahn on 15th Dec 09:
“yes,i'm lonely wanna die. LISTEN TO JOHN ,MAN,WHAT VOCAL CORDS.HE RIPS IT,UP!”
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TriangularPerson18 on 29th Nov 09:
“love this song, even though it has pretty depressing lyrics...”
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robin p. melahn on 20th Nov 09:
“john,kicks ***, on guitar,best of, the best...mind blowing,re-master......”
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