Riding Into Jaipur | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

‘Riding Into Jaipur’ is the 14th song on Paul McCartney’s 2001 album Driving Rain.

The song was written while Paul and Linda McCartney were holidaying in the Maldives. See more…

Funnily enough the melody for this was written outside of India. I had a back-packing guitar, a little Martin travel guitar that is absolutely slimmed down to nothing and weighs sort of zero ounces. I had one of those that Linda had got me as a prezzie; and I took it when she and I went to the Maldives for a holiday. My particular back-packer – and I haven’t noticed this on other people’s – seems to have a bit of a sound on certain frets like a sitar, and because I was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the two came together in that song. I didn’t have a title for the song, but when I went to India this year I took a train to Jaipur. It was a very exotic over-night train journey and I did some words that were in the same vein as that original melody. So those two things came together.