During an interview in the late seventies, John Lennon had the following to say about the song:

“I was trying to write about an affair without letting my wife know I was having one. I was sort of writing from my experiences – girl’s flats, things like that. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn’t want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I’d always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair, but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn’t tell. But I can’t remember any specific woman it had to do with.”

A great campfire song, the rhythm can be a little tricky on this tune but overall you shouldn’t have too many problems. So get out that acoustic …

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