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Paul McCartney:

John and I wrote ‘She’s Leaving Home’ together. It was my inspiration. We’d seen a story in the newspaper about a young girl who’d left home and not been found, there were a lot of those at the time, and that was enough to give us a story line. So I started to get the lyrics: she slips out and leaves a note and then the parents wake up … It was rather poignant. I like it as a song, and when I showed it to John, he added the long sustained notes, and one of the nice things about the structure of the song is that it stays on those chords endlessly. Before that period in our song-writing we would have changed chords but it stays on the C chord. It really holds you. It’s a really nice little trick and I think it worked very well.

While I was showing that to John, he was doing the Greek chorus, the parents’ view: ‘We gave her most of our lives, we gave her everything money could buy.’ I think that may have been in the runaway story, it might have been a quote from the parents. Then there’s the famous little line about a man from the motor trade; people have since said that was Terry Doran, who was a friend who worked in a car showroom, but it was just fiction, like the sea captain in “Yellow Submarine”, they weren’t real people.[1]
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  • EricValeev

    beautiful

    16 days ago

  • SpiritOfYetaxa

    Those harmonies are hilarious

    23 days ago

  • calrs

    Amateur and feeble lyrics in this one.

    26 days ago

  • myonlyweakness

    The best.

    27 days ago

  • BlueOclock

    C|:-)-]--< Wonderful song!

    27 days ago

  • Roy1968Wood

    Maybe the least dated song from this dated album but still a haunting song of youth leaving the nest and bewildering the parents why they yearn to be free.

    last month

  • oldiesfanjohn

    <3<3<3 out-- fuckn--standing!!!

    last month

  • Fowlowl

    What a beautiful song magical love love love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    last month

  • DavidVSoho

    Fab!! [2]

    last month

  • mnmari

    I love this song. ♥

    last month

  • dabigcheeze

    One of the most beautiful songs ever made!

    March 2012

  • meganbreukelman

    she's leaving home after living alone for so many years...

    March 2012

  • jeanalisson2006

    I want to hug this song ♥

    March 2012

  • davo421

    bye bye

    February 2012

  • rushfan1

    The string arrangement is such a great complement to one of the best tunes on the best Beatles album, In my opinion, of course.

    February 2012

  • watchintv

    i used to really hate this song, but it grew onto me and i'm in love with it now ayE

    February 2012

  • Playpet

    One of the few songs that has ever made me tear up. Shit gets emotional, yo

    February 2012

  • nybbon

    Perhaps the best song on Sgt. Pepper.

    February 2012

  • myonlyweakness

    So beautiful!

    February 2012

  • felghen

    :o

    February 2012
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