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2.26am
7 November 2022
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Timothy said
I like the backstory about the recording, how Paul was looking out for John after the bigger than Jesus drama, due to the song’s use of Christ. And the way their dynamic in the studio while recording the song seemed rather good despite the overall mood of that time.
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9.00pm
14 December 2009
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Sea Belt said
My thoughts on this great song.John’s little electric guitar two-note licks are wonderful, but they always go down — he should have gone up at least once or twice to vary it — the two notes would be based on A-B-C-C# but I don’t know what the accompanying notes would be (I’d have to work it out on my guitar).
He does go up, though, twice – during the last two verses.
I like how those descending guitar parts, both throughout, and, during the little tag at the end; suggest Spanish- (or Mexican-?) tinged melodies, almost like a nod to the Gibraltar area itself. (We all know that the parts themselves were taken from Johnny Burnette’s “Lonesome Tears in My Eyes “, of course.)
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8.04pm
7 May 2017
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I like how those descending guitar parts, both throughout, and, during the little tag at the end; suggest Spanish- (or Mexican-?) tinged melodies, almost like a nod to the Gibraltar area itself. (We all know that the parts themselves were taken from Johnny Burnette’s “Lonesome Tears in My Eyes “, of course.
Interesting thought on the nod to Gibraltar. 
As for the end of “The Ballad Of John And Yoko ” and “Lonesome Tears in My Eyes ,” you are definitely not alone there. But I lean more toward “The Honeymoon Song.” This is what beatlesebooks.com says concerning take 7 from the 50th Anniversary edition of Abbey Road :
We also witness John vocalizing the concluding guitar figure that he would overdub later, reminiscent of “The Honeymoon Song,” a selection by Marino Marini and his Quartet from 1959 that The Beatles used to perform regularly in their early years, their own rendition included on the 1994 release “Live At The BBC .” It only makes sense that John would insist on this reference since the subject matter of “The Ballad Of John And Yoko ” included their own honeymoon.
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