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For future reference, Faceo’s post was an April Fools joke. Notice the date he posted it.

Yesterday evening while walking with my dog, I heard Style Style from Off The Ground – The Complete Works for the first time. I listened to it again this morning while getting ready for work. Here are a few lyrics from the song:

She is perfectly spotless?
A fact that sticks out a mile

But this little lady’s got style??
Style, style
See her when she’s walking?
She’s got style, style?
Even when she’s making me say
Ooooh-oo
Ooooh hey hey

Always armed with a smile?
You’ve only got to look at her picture to know?
That this little lady’s got style??
Style, style

See her when she’s talking?
She’s got style, style

She’s got style peeping out of her pockets

It struck me about a half hour later as I was getting ready to walk the door to go to work that this song made me think of Looking at Her from New. Here are a few lyrics from it.

If you ask her how it’s done
She won’t know
It’s like trying to catch the sun
On the water
She tries to explain
Then it happens again

Everybody’s looking at her
She’s got everybody talking about her
She’s good, she’s kind
She’s so refined

She’s good, so fine
She’s sweet as wine

Doesn’t she know, why can’t she see
Look at the effect that she’s having on me
I’m not alone
I’m part of the crowd
Turning our heads as she walks down the street

Well, as pointed out by Mr. Kite (oooo that gif) and known by @WETSRoosa for some time (he doesn’t have enough holy water to dump on me and his printing press for the indulgences can crank ’em out fast enough), I guess I’ve put the kibosh on any notion of pulling off spotless, stylish, or refined on this forum. Oh, well, it is me you have.

One last observation for this post. The line “She’s got style peeping out of her pockets” pairs well with “With the recipe for a lovely day
Sticking out of my back pocket” from the song Ballroom Dancing.

Wait one more. In Another Day , the lady is dipping into the pocket of her raincoat.

wetsroosa said

Ahhh Girl said 

Well, as pointed out by Mr. Kite (oooo that gif) and known by @WETSRoosa for some time (he doesn’t have enough holy water to dump on me and his printing press for the indulgences can crank ’em out fast enough), I guess I’ve put the kibosh on any notion of pulling off spotless, stylish, or refined on this forum. Oh, well, it is me you have.
 

No because I had to use all the holy water I had to cleanse your dirty soul … means I have to go to the Vatican… maybe Pope Francis can hook me up with some H2O…

Wait , that wasn’t the H2O I was talking about… though they finally do get inducted into the R&R HOF tonite.

Letting the cat out of the bag here. I will be visiting the Vatican next month. Put your call in to His Holiness, and he can have his guards drag me out of the museum or St. Peter’s to get my ultimate lecture.

meanmistermustard said
I’d call the Pope and warn him to get out and go on a Papal visit to another country,a ll those thoughts and comments about Paul have no place in the same country as the Pope He is in Israel in late May, any chance you could go on your trip then AG to held him out?

I guess he doesn’t know about me yet. He didn’t block my purchase of tickets to to the museum. Maybe standing in the Sistine Chapel will inspire me to change my ways. Bwahaha…I just read what I wrote. It don’t think I’m likely to be reformed by the experience. The pull of is just too strong.

EDIT: @meanmistermustard The museum tickets are day and time stamped, and they aren’t refundable $$. And besides, plane tickets, train tickets, and hotel rooms here and there are already arranged, so the Pope will have to schedule an extra trip earlier in the month if he wants to miss me. I can’t help him out, sorry.

In “Early Days “, Paul sings that he and John were “Seeking someone who would listen to the music / That we were writing down at home.”

According to Lewisohn, John and Paul only wrote down the words and chords.

They’d no means of recording them and neither could read or write music, so Paul appropriated a Liverpool Institute exercise book, maybe 48 feint-ruled pages, in which every new song had a fresh page. In his neat left-handed script, generally using a fountain pen, he wrote the words (they were always words, never lyrics) with chords shown by their alphabetical letter. Unable to describe the melody, they decided early on that if they couldn’t remember something the next day, they could hardly expect it to stick in the mind of anyone else, in which case it was “c – p” and deserved to go. But sometimes Paul wrote atmospheric directions. For one song it was, “Ooh ah, angel voices”.

I don’t know much about song/music writing. Is there any contradiction between Paul’s statement and what Lewisohn wrote?

EDIT: Neither Paul or John could read or write music. I guess Paul was taking a bit of poetic license in “Early Days “. Perhaps he was just meaning “songs” instead of “music”. Um, ah, um, hum, I guess those are interchangeable. I’m desperately trying to defend Paul in my mind here.