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Many years from now.
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine.
If i'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When i'm sixty-four.
You'll be older too,
And it you say the word,
I could stay with you.
I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride,
Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When i'm sixty-four.
Every summer we can rent a cottage,
In the isle of wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera chuck & dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When i'm sixty-four.
An example of pros/cons of McCartney - clever tune but granny music. Still - better that Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Your Mother Should Know.
You're Mother Should Know is incredible. I love it.
Shit howdy.
Do they still feed you. Do they still need you?
An example of pros/cons of McCartney - clever tune but granny music. Still - better that Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Your Mother Should Know.
Oh, that George Martin! *shakes fist*
Shit howdy.
I just turned 64 the week before last. If I'd known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.
Yep. Cradle (John's "Say Goodnight") to grave ("Paul's granny music"), and everything in between. The Beatles covered it all.
Shit howdy.
Totally agree, I'm nearly there. Time flies, but life is so much more enjoyable...
You know my name... Look up the number
outstanding
And Paul... :o Triangles!
You and I are very different people!
It is soooo incredible how this song sounds deceptively like a simple pop song, but the lyrics match the best of Shakespeare...
this song is from the single best album in the history of humanity...
Goodness!
They're clever, but "the best of Shakespeare?"
Polonius, perhaps.
I do not want to denigrate them but there is a zombie like aspect to their followers
But we're happy zombies.
From the preview / advert for "The World According to Garp" no?
Great song.
If anyone is qualified to make that judgement, it's romeotuma
Thank you! Everybody in my alien space craft loves this song from the best album of all time...
hope life is grand for you these days, cosmiclint...
I do not want to denigrate them but there is a zombie like aspect to their followers
The summer of love. The next year was the year of death and destruction
Ditto! Wooooosh.
You made it! Dew? Dew?!? DEW!!!??
Well I guess I can wish you a Happy 64 now in July
One year and three months—On the flip side, I was blessed to have grown up with The Beatles.
Everybody in my hotel room loves this song, and this whole album, which is the best album in the history of our solar system...
If anyone is qualified to make that judgement, it's romeotuma
Sorry, I keep coming up 2" short...
And that's just perfect, dear.
;)
Sorry, I keep coming up 2" short...
Born 18 June 1942 (age 69)
When your lights have gone.
Classic!
FELLOW RADIO-RP listeners!
"WHEN I HAD BEEN 64!"
PS
I AGREE WITH THE MAINSTREAM (HERE),
it's one of the best albums ever been made!
fredriley wrote:
No, it's "when I am 64" - present tense, not pluperfect.
I think what Stingray might have been getting at (aside from his repeated references to what he considers the advanced ages of other RP listeners), is that if McCartney were to sing this song today, it would not be appropriate for him to say "...when I am sixty-four". Since Sir Paul is now at least sixty-eight years old, he should sing "when I was sixty-four".
No, it's "when I am 64" - present tense, not pluperfect.
Sgt. Pepper's John Lennon by rising70
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It's comments like these that frost my petunias. "We Can Work it Out", "Getting Better", hardly a ditty, my dear.
Up to and including:
"Let It Be,"
"Yesterday,"
"Eleanor Rigby,"
"Hey Jude,"
"Get Back,"
"Penny Lane,"
"Blackbird,"
"Oh! Darling,"
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Can't Buy Me Love," "Hello, Goodbye," "The Long and Winding Road," "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "Paperback Writer," "Michelle," "Golden Slumbers," "Back in the USSR," "Fixing a Hole," "Lady Madonna," "You Never Give Me Your Money," "Helter Skelter," and "Yellow Submarine," (Ringo sang it, but Paul wrote the song.)
Together, they were golden.
I remember reading somewhere that McCartney wrote this song when he was sixteen years old.
This song was mentioned on Jeopardy last night — they said Paul wrote it for his father, who was 64 at the time.
FELLOW RADIO-RP listeners!
"WHEN I HAD BEEN 64!"
PS
I AGREE WITH THE MAINSTREAM (HERE),
it's one of the best albums ever been made!
Release date June 1, 1967. I'm guessing kindergarten.
Yes, 1967. Kindergarten for me too - a few months later.
Release date June 1, 1967. I'm guessing kindergarten.
1967, actually.
Beatles "Sgt. Pepper" by ~JSaurer
©2008-2010 ~JSaurer
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Airbrush, water colours, coloured pencils, 1996
I'm busy with caricatures of Rock musicians since the late 70s.
Lots of them were released on CD-covers, calendars and music magazines.
The original size is mostly A3 (30 x 42 cm)
Okay, I don't get it. romeotuma is positive and upbeat, and y'all dump on him—Poacher's dis is completely uncalled for. What? You'd rather have the unrelentingly mindless and negative Excelsior back? So what if romeotuma has a limited vocabulary, and so what if he only rates the songs he considers 10s? Jeez, give a little...
Yes, I don't understand either, people getting uptight over someone enjoying everything they hear on RP. We need more upbeat, positive people in the world like Romeotuma!
It changed a good deal . . . then. Not sure about the impact on the long run.
Sappy McCartney crap
hippiechick wrote:Look, Sir Paul's post-Beatle output even grates on me. That's not the point. This is a sophisticated rendition of a time-honored Tin Pan Alley arrangement with, for the time (yes, there is context), a fairly challenging lyric. He was barely 25 when he wrote this, and we were all a lot younger. The very idea of reaching the age of 64—I'm still not there, but fast closing! —was as alien as little green men. So, I think it took a bit of cheek to even broach the topic to a generation of fans who had largely adopted "Hope I die before I get old" as a mantra. Besides, the clarinet's 4th harmony in the third verse is to die for.
I remember reading somewhere that McCartney wrote this song when he was sixteen years old.
It rates up there I'll give you that. But since you rate every song a 10, your ratings do not really mean much. And then there are your comments......they are soooo painful for the mind......
Okay, I don't get it. romeotuma is positive and upbeat, and y'all dump on him—Poacher's dis is completely uncalled for. What? You'd rather have the unrelentingly mindless and negative Excelsior back? So what if romeotuma has a limited vocabulary, and so what if he only rates the songs he considers 10s? Jeez, give a little...
Sappy McCartney crap
hippiechick wrote:Look, Sir Paul's post-Beatle output even grates on me. That's not the point. This is a sophisticated rendition of a time-honored Tin Pan Alley arrangement with, for the time (yes, there is context), a fairly challenging lyric. He was barely 25 when he wrote this, and we were all a lot younger. The very idea of reaching the age of 64—I'm still not there, but fast closing! —was as alien as little green men. So, I think it took a bit of cheek to even broach the topic to a generation of fans who had largely adopted "Hope I die before I get old" as a mantra. Besides, the clarinet's 4th harmony in the third verse is to die for.
John writes music, Paul writes ditties.
Anyway, who ever thought, when this song came out, that I would be staring 64 down someday. Sigh...
That's right, ditties — like Helter Skelter and Let Me Roll It - just to name two.
Darn it! In my head, I was hearing (and hoping for ) the segue into 'Lovely Rita.'
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
It rates up there I'll give you that. But since you rate every song a 10, your ratings do not really mean much. And then there are your comments......they are soooo painful for the mind......
Indeed. RP's pet twat troll.
This song is from the best album of all time...
It rates up there I'll give you that. But since you rate every song a 10, your ratings do not really mean much. And then there are your comments......they are soooo painful for the mind......
Darn it! In my head, I was hearing (and hoping for ) the segue into 'Lovely Rita.'
I guess he can afford the cottage in the Isle of Wight now...
I don't know, maybe needs more frying pan?
Sappy McCartney crap
John writes music, Paul writes ditties.
Anyway, who ever thought, when this song came out, that I would be staring 64 down someday. Sigh...
Sappy McCartney crap
No need to get nasty.
I've heard a lot of stuff today I haven't heard before. When I turned RP on this morning, there was some cool swing coming out the speakers. Some Cab Calloway soon after.
Averaged over any given period, I think Bill does a great job.
This is the 2nd time today a track from this album has been played. In fact, RP has been playing The Beatles almost everyday lately!!!
What's with that? Who do I complain to? RANT! GROWL!! NASTY COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR ANCESTRY!!!
Friggin' idiots like you are wrecking the song comments pages. I happen to like The Beatles. I even have this album. I'm ok if Bill even wants to play MORE Beatles.
Go listen to some AM radio for awhile, you jerk!
Sort of. I think being married to Sir Paul would have to abuse on some level. I don't think he beat her or anything though.
I find it hard to believe that, after all his cattin' 'round, that Macca could ever be monogamous, so my thought was that maybe this had something to do it. Linda could handle it, Heather couldn't, is my supposition.