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(off 1968 ‘eponymous beatles album’)
(closing track of ‘side 2’ (of 4))
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(john lennon wrote the song about his dead mother)
(when he was 17)
(by now he was 27)
(like paul did the next year with “let it be”)
(to much better effect)
(i never liked this song)
(didn’t have a good melody)
(seemed to meander in its fingerpicking groove)
(not much uplifting or ‘magical’ about the song)
(reminds me of the worst of john’s solo music)
(like john lennon recast as a proto-joni mitchell)
(this isn’t a very good song)
(closes “side 2” of ‘the white album’)
(of 4 ‘sides’)
(preceded by paul’s “i will”)
(followed up by paul’s “birthday”)
(“CD 1” on the compact disc version)
(during my freshman fall lydia gardener asked me to write a song for her)
(i played this song to her)
(changing “julia” to “lydia”)
(played it to her on the steps of tercentenary theater)
(i never followed up on it)
(stupid me)
(now she’s a dentist)
(she could really save me now!)
(saw her at the “harvard 5-year reunion”)
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