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Beatles Songs with Girls
24 June 2024
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LucyInTheSkyWithHackneyDiamonds
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Almost every Beatles song has a girl in the lyrics, whether it be the title or a mention. (Note: assume that mentions of “you” or “baby will sparingly be a girl, since it’s sung by a Beatle).

Beatles songs without a girl:

Doctor Robert

Across The Universe

Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Come Together

Fixing A Hole

The Fool On The Hill

12-Bar Original

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Notes: 

*Some songs feature a teacher (assuming female)

*I know, I know… gay people today… (But in relation to the 60s)

*”Blackbird ” is loosely translated into “black girl”.

 

Who is your favorite Beatle song girl? (It may be a title, or a mention)

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One of the conspiracy theorists did have an interesting speculation that when the Beatles were singing love songs to girls, they were really singing to all of us — expanding romantic love into some kind of transcendental love.

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Don’t forget the excellent trivia about the two songs where the subject’s gender was changed. Sexy Sadie (about the Maharishi) and She Said She Said (about Henry Fonda) 

If I recall correctly You Know My Name does’t mention a girl either. Girl from Girl is probably my favorite Beatles Girl. That sigh is just such a unique choice to follow that line, and the way that the harmonies change and expand each time over the word Girl is genius.  

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-Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues

"We could ride and surf together while our love would grow"

-Brian Wilson, Surfer Girl

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sir walter raleigh said
If I recall correctly You Know My Name does’t mention a girl either. Girl from Girl is probably my favorite Beatles Girl. That sigh is just such a unique choice to follow that line, and the way that the harmonies change and expand each time over the word Girl is genius.  

  

“You Know My Name” I believe refers to a Beatle getting a girl to call them, despite the phone ad which inspired it. Therefore, a girl is mentioned. (sparingly, “you” denotes a girl, since it’s sung from the point of view of a Beatle).

 

-And Sea Belt, that is exactly what happens with “Free As A Bird “, “Real Love ” and “Now And Then “.

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expanding romantic love into some kind of transcendental love.

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What about I’m Only Sleeping

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-Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues

"We could ride and surf together while our love would grow"

-Brian Wilson, Surfer Girl

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There’s really nothing to definitively suggest that the telephone call in “Look Up The Number” is being solicited from a girl, though.

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