Get Back Lyrics
But he knew it couldn't last
Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona
Bought some California grass
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back Jojo, go home
Get back, get back
Back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Back to where you once belonged
Get back Jo
Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she's got it coming
But she gets it while she can
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back Loretta, go home
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
Get home Loretta
Your mother's waiting for you
Wearing her high-heel shoes
And her low-neck sweater
Get on home Loretta
Get back, get back
Get back to where you once belonged
john said whenever paul sang that part "get back to where you once belonged" he would look at yoko. you know to me, in some ways, this ogn is about john and yoko. or maybe i'm letting my imagination get to me. i feel like it's paul's cry for john to stay with the beatles and also paul saying to yoko stay away from john and leave them and the beatles alone.
jojo is john and loretta is yoko. jojo left his home(the beatles)..for some california grass(this i dunno but i just took a wild guess he went with yoko and then him and yoko were arrested for having pot)
then paul says "get back" to both "jojo" and "loretta." telling "jojo" to stay home with the beatles..."where he once belonged." then telling "loretta" to go back wherever she came from.
also in loretta's part. it says "all the girls around her said she's got it coming. but she gets it while she can" maybe saying yoko's friends are like "you're gonna get in trouble if you go with john"...but she goes with john anyway. she gets him while she can?
lol, no one said this is bout john and yoko i just thought of it before.
but anyway, awesome song
@appypollyloggy interesting theory and as the fact it is a cover only some lyrics were relatable, not all of them need to, hell even just the theme of it is enough to go with
@appypollyloggy interesting theory and as the fact it is a cover only some lyrics were relatable, not all of them need to, hell even just the theme of it is enough to go with
McCartney: When we were doing Let It Be, there were a couple of verses to “Get Back” which were actually not racist at all - they were anti-racist. There were a lot of stories in the newspapers then about Pakistanis crowding out flats - you know, living 16 to a room or whatever. So in one of the verses of “Get Back,” which we were making up on the set of Let It Be, one of the outtakes has something about ‘too many Pakistanis living in a council flat’ - that’s the line. Which to me was actually talking out against overcrowding for Pakistanis… If there was any group that was not racist, it was the Beatles. I mean, all our favourite people were always black. We were kind of the first people to open international eyes, in a way, to Motown.
McCartney: Many people have since claimed to be the Jo Jo and they’re not, let me put that straight! I had no particular person in mind, again it was a fictional character, half man, half woman, all very ambiguous. I often left things ambiguous, I like doing that in my songs.
Lennon: Yes, I played the solo on “Get Back.” When Paul was feeling kindly, he would give me a solo! Maybe if he was feeling guilty that he had most of the a-side or something, he would give me a solo. And I played the solo on that.
After listening to this sound 50,000 times over the course of my life, it occurred to me recently that this is Paul's attempt at a Lou Reed-type song -- colorful characters with sex and drug hangups going through interesting journeys. Compare the lyrics here to "Take a Walk on the Wild Side."
I got that as well.
I got that as well.
This song came out three years before Walk on the wild side
This song came out three years before Walk on the wild side
Freddie, I didn't necessarily mean that it was literally a response to "Wild Side," just that it was lyrically similar in style to many of Lou Reed's songs, which were often about transvestites 'n' such.
Freddie, I didn't necessarily mean that it was literally a response to "Wild Side," just that it was lyrically similar in style to many of Lou Reed's songs, which were often about transvestites 'n' such.
I like ther version on the Let It Be album...at the end john says "thank you very much on behalf of the band and i hope we passed the audition".
Do you hear what's said as they're tuning?
Do you hear what's said as they're tuning?
It sounds like; "Sweet Loretta Vat, she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan."
It sounds like; "Sweet Loretta Vat, she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan."
@weezerific:cutlery it’s actually Sweet Loretta “fart” in heavy Liverpudlian accent..
@weezerific:cutlery it’s actually Sweet Loretta “fart” in heavy Liverpudlian accent..
Well in actual fact Jo Jo was in reference to John Lennons driver Joe ,Loretta Martin was the telephone operator at Apple.
There's one line in this song that I REALLY don't understand:
"Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman But she was another man"
Can someone please explain at the very least what they think it means?
@freethegoldfish I've wondered if that's a transphobic statement, telling a trans woman to "get back" to being male.
@freethegoldfish I've wondered if that's a transphobic statement, telling a trans woman to "get back" to being male.
I just read last night an interview with John, and he said that everytime Paul would sing the line "Get back to where you once belonged " He would sing it at Yoko when she was in the studio.
Cool little fact I thought :P
for freethegoldfish, i think these lines refer to a woman who is in business world with men and playing by the rules of men. she thinks she is a woman but has become a part of a masquline world-she is another man.she may be working hard to''get it while she can'get back may mean to be a woman again with high heel shoes and low neck sweaters-something she cant wear at work. i may be wrong,though.
Let it Be was originally gonna be called Get Back, Paul wanted the Beatles to Get Back to their roots (rock & roll), so that the fighting between the band members would stop.
Jo-Jo was Linda McCartney's exhusband Joe See...they used to live in Tucson and John left for S. Africa...new grass is basically saying he was looking for new land and that Paul didn't want him coming back. Loretta Martin could be Yoko we all know they didn't get along