This is a song that will always ring so deep through me. When my girlfriend of 7 years and I split up she met someone new about 3 weeks later, and I was going insane. I wondered what she would say if I called her, and all I wanted was a little peace of mind and sleep.
John did the down a half step from the I chord trick twice on White Album: I'm So Tired (in A) and Sexy Sadie (in G). But on SS, he goes G-F# to the Bm (III chord). Then the IV and V chords. I have a special affection for "I'm So Tired" because it got me back into music after I had left it for half a decade. We had babies two years apart and I was really, really tired for a multi-year period. So finally I picked up the acoustic and started singing the song. It's amazing how good it feels to vent through music.
@@theverdicts5616 Although Radiohead reversed the order of the progression, starting with the IV and V chords, which would be fine by itself. But then they compounded the obvious theft by using a very similar piano line over the progression. It's like on "Creep", in the verses they use the Hollies chords from the verses of "Air That I Breathe". And they might have gotten away with it,, but then decided to go back and cop the Hollies' melody line in the bridge of their song. You can't do that, guys!
I played a lot of Beatles in the car with my kids, and this was one of my daughter's favorites when she was little. Which is odd, because she's never been a sleepy type. I think she just liked how well John conveyed the mood.
That's the thing about the Beatles. You don't even have to understand the lyrics to love the music. My mom played Beatles for me every day as a kid and I loved it not understanding a word. And now that I do I like them even more. That is something few bands can do.
'Git' is mostly a mild curse word, despite its more murky origins! 'You stupid git' was a very common mild insult when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies
In the Harry Potter series book "Goblet of Fire." The word "git" is used as a derogatory term for a "sorry friend" or some sort of betrayal of their friendship.
It was used in a mildly shocking way on the comteporary BBC comedy show Till Death Us Do Part (1965-75). there's an indication of its shock value in this story from the author Jonny Speight, comparing it to racist language also present in the show. "For the time, and for a family sitcom, Till Death Us Do Part reflected this by being genuinely near the mark with its language. While the show’s BBC producers were not, in that day and age, particularly worried about Alf’s use of racist slurs like "darkie" and "coon", they were horrified at the number of times words such as "damn", "git" and "bloody" came up. Speight often had to spend hours negotiating over this, resulting in some of the most surreal TV script meetings of all time: "We can lose two ‘gits’ and a ‘damn’ but we need to keep his ‘arse’ - how can he sit down without an arse?"
And before as well - in "It's Only Love" from Help. In the verse when they sing "my oh my". It is (almost!) unique for guitarists as it can be seen as having any of the 3 constituent notes as the root (sorry , that's a poor way of describing it). But it is distinctive.
There’s an interesting podcast called Another Kind of Mind that re-examines the last few years of the Beatles. They have an interesting take on this song that it’s about Paul.
Hi Mr. HollyHobs! Once again, I’d just like to say you do fantastic with your videos and I appreciate all the effort you put in! Keep up the amazing work!!!
Also the chords for the na na na section were lifted from Dear mister fantasy by Traffic. Paul once said a good songwriter borrows from other songs. A great songwriter steals from them.He is a musical genius
You'll be relieved to know, Mr Hollyhob, that in British English, git is but a mild curse word. About 2 or 3 at most out of 10 on the cuss-o-meter. Interesting video as usual.
He used a very similar chord progression but in a different key in "Sexy Sadie." The second chord is a half step down from the first chord in exactly the same way. The main difference is you get the iii chord in there instead of the vi.
I quit after 30 years. 20 years ago, my best advice stay away from them. Girls don't like to kiss a mouth that smells and tastes like an ashtray. Guys that smoke don't care because most of the girls they kiss smell like an ashtray too. People can say, I can quit anytime, oh yeah, why not now? Dying from lungs that look like charcoal briquettes is not pretty and it's sad that they can be begging god for one more breath, when he gives it to them, they go outside and have a smoke. I've seen it, I worked in a hospital for 10 years. It would kill me to see a beautiful 20 year old girl dying from cancer, pushing an IV pole around the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. SAD, SAD, SAD. All it does is prove you are weak--yep, you have a monkey on your back.
@@jumpercable20 Smoking cigarettes doesn’t turn your lungs this black. It’s called the black lung myth, popularized by Hitler in the 30’s. Smokers donate their lungs all the time, and they end up looking normal. Smoking isn’t healthy, but then turning lungs black is an absolute myth.
@@LazyLizzy706 it’s not a myth...black lung disease resulted from working in coal mines but smoking damages lungs as well. The good news is they begin repairing themselves as soon as a person quits smoking. Unfortunately other effects of smoking such as heart disease & COPD are non-reversible.
I came from a family of smokers and have always hated it. My father was one of the toughest men I ever knew but he died from a massive heart attack at the age of 62. My mother died recently from COPD & her smoking caused my youngest sister to have a lifelong case of severe asthma. My brother also suffers from COPD & has to bring an oxygen tank with him everywhere he goes. He’s had many near death experiences. I agree with John. It’s the only aspect of my Native American heritage of which I’m ashamed.
John was a very critical thinker. IMO his self deprecation came from his own insecurities & the fact that many of us are our own worst critics because we always think we can do better. John was never stagnant. He was always evolving. One can only speculate how he would have felt given time. Anyone who hasn’t heard Sean’s wonderful celebration of John’s 80th birthday really needs to check it out. He interviews McCartney, Julian, & Elton John concerning his father. Sean shows impressive insight toward understanding John as well as getting past all the critics (and wannabes) to see the similarities between John & Paul’s respective solo debuts.
From an Englishman of a certain age who remembers swinging London well, to American of another age, you explained and mastered the word "Git" beautifully. I feel if you said "shut up you old git", I would feel genuinely offended. 🇬🇧🇺🇸Love your channel. Respect.
John also sang Revolution 1 while lying on the floor. Was that for sound or just laziness? I'm pretty sure he utilized the bed that he had brought in the studio for Yoko during Abbey Road a couple of times too. We must not forget that John wrote two White Album songs about sleeping- I'm So Tired and Goodnight. So was John lazy? Possibly. Brilliant? Without a doubt.
John has said in quite a few videos that he is lazy and loves to sleep more then anything. But it's all well and good because he gave us so much when awake he gets a pass.
that’s a bit of a stretch saying he was talking about Smokey Robinson because he wrote “Smokey voice” at the top of the page... Women have been laying on top of pianos using a smoky voice for decades...
@@CikisHelyzet I highly doubt that is actually Brian Warner. The pic is him but I don't think the actual Brain Warner aka Marilyn Manson is on here commenting about Smokey Robinson lol. I actually knew the guy before he was signed and he was kind of quiet and reserved... but once fame hit well we all know how it went. The ego gets so big they think they can get away with anything.. and they do most of the time.
I have a few interesting facts that you may want to work with. In an interview Paul gave in the early 70s Paul said he got the chords for the verses from a song by the Drifters called Save the last dance for me. If you match them up it's almost exact. When Paul sings "remember " the Drifters sing "dont forget " and the same place in the song. You must check this out because very few know about this
"Sir Walter Raleigh... was such a stupid get." I always understood that line in the context that it was commonly believed that if Raleigh had made landfall a few miles further along the coast, he'd have made contact with one of the local tribes who used marijuana rather than tobacco. Lennon is supposedly cursing Raleigh because cannabis would not have been illegal if it had caught on in England before tobacco did. In reality, Raleigh DID bring marijuana back too but the upper class kept it to themselves. However, it's a better joke if you ignore the facts and stick to the myth!
Of all the fantastic music The Beatles made, as well as post-Beatles, probably my two favourite tracks of all run together.........I'm so tired and Blackbird.
The Beatles wrote like 50 songs while in India. So if it was drugs, meditation, being tired or not sleeping, whatever it was did inspire a crap ton of great songs.
Hi, I hope you make again video like this about "you won't see me" cauz i want to know what is the real story behind of it. Love, one of your viewers in philippines
Lots of great info here!! Another great video. Honestly the highlight for me though was hearing you sing. Your voice is so lovely! Been a while since I heard it in a video!
Great video! I always thought the song was about John's frustrations with trying to communicate with Paul, after Yoko had fully entered the picture. But of course, Paul was dead, so how silly was that.
This song also highly reminds me of Peggy Lee's "Black Coffee"(1949) They have the same second line and mention cigarettes. Here are some of the lyrics: I'm feelin' mighty lonesome Haven't slept a wink I walk the floor from nine to four In between I drink Black coffee Love's a hand-me-down brew I'll never know a Sunday In this weekday room I'm talkin to the shadow One o'clock till four And Lord, how slow the moments go And all I do is pour Black coffee Since the blues caught my eye I'm hangin' out on Monday My Sunday dreams to dry Now man was born to go a lovin' But was a woman born to weep and fret And stay at home and tend her oven And down her past regrets In coffee and cigarettes
I always associated this song with kicking heroin. I didn't sleep for weeks while withdrawing from Xanax and opiates except for a few minutes at a time and kind of just hallucinating. Some people say " no no no, you would be dead" but whatever. I share this because this song along with many others really helped me back then. I'm lucky to have made it out of that living hell with a little help from the beatles.
The mumbling at the end is in keeping with the song, I think John intended it to be there but needed to disguise what he was saying, having not yet told his wife about his feelings for Yoko.. I think the very end bit is just wordless muttering, but the first part to me sounds like " I miss you, I miss you, I miss you! My bed's an oven..." If he had called Yoko, this is what he would have probably told her. As well as the imposed isolation, his smoking and his regular sleep patterns broken, being unaccustomed to the Indian heat would have added to his restlessness.
Ive loved this channel before you had even a 1000 subscribers. And I find myself watching these videos late at night, when I cant sleep at night and when I'm so tired. Keep it up man love you.
I always thought that lyric was "& curse the walls around me, u were such a stupid Git". ( No offense to Lennon & his reference to Sir Walter Raleigh but I like my "version" as well since I do that when I have Insomnia 🙄..)
Dear Mr. Hollyhob I can remember as a young girl in the 60s, a line or 2 of the Beatles song Getting Better being used in a commercial. Judging by where I was living at the time, it couldn’t be any later than 1970 or 71. I believe it was an ad about vocations, or something educational. I could be wrong. But I remember hearing the song! I can’t find it anywhere on the Internet. I was wondering if you can do some research, or if you’re familiar with it. Thanks!
I smoked for about 10 years as well, from age 16-17 to 27, so maybe close to 11. I still miss it occasionally but I'm glad I quit, I forgot what food tasted like, what flowers smelled like, or what a good mood it would put me in to smell my GF's perfume when I walked into the house after work.
Great video. This song brought me and my soulmate together over a mutual love of / obsession with the Beatles. And I was born on the day John Lennon was murdered. U have a lovely voice, btw.
It sounds like he says either "Julia" or "Juian" at the very tail end of his murmuring @6:15-6:17. Like he's doing a French accent saying "How 'bout ze nother one? Julia?"
I grew up in the north of England in the 60’s and there was definitely two different terms - both ‘git’ and ‘get’ were commonly used slang insults. They may have the same derivations but the two words definitely existed side by side.
Everybody knows this song because of the Sir Walter Raleigh line. That is why so many people started to read up about him because of the line in the song
I'm not quite convinced about the Smokey Robinson thing. Regardless of him being a fan. From a lyricists perspective (and from someone who has stupid amounts of lyrics written ) It sounds to me that he wanted a "smokey" voice meaning he wanted it to be slightly breathless and tired but would then pick it up with "heavy" (possibly in this case relating more to anguish and exasperation devolved from the situation) It just makes more sense to me than him wanting to emulate Smokey Robinson's almost sweet voice. But I guess the only one with the answer is no longer with us! :S (P.S. Great videos!) xx
I’m an American, and ever since I got the album upon its release (well, my older brother got it and I stole it) I thought I’m So Tired was one of my favorite tracks. I pretty much knew what they were talking about by calling Sir Walter Raleigh a stupid “get”.
Narcolepsy is a brain disorder, not a tendency to want to rest or to be low-energy. A person with narcolepsy can't control how/where they fall asleep -- even standing up, in public, etc. A person with narcolepsy won't have chronic insomnia. John did not have narcolepsy. He was more likely suffering from depression, probably his whole life -- possibly due to inherited factors, but likely he was set up for it when his father deserted the family when John was only three y.o.; and later, when he was forced to live with his Aunt Mimi instead of his beloved mother; and then, when his mother was tragically killed, when John was a teenager. John even tried primal scream therapy in the 70s, when it was a fad (largely discredited now), and he later said it didn't work for him. He was a troubled guy, and people suffering from depression are often low-energy, listless, have a hard time getting out of bed, etc.
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@@taphorphicexonyct How can I go forward when I don't know which way to turn
This is a song that will always ring so deep through me. When my girlfriend of 7 years and I split up she met someone new about 3 weeks later, and I was going insane. I wondered what she would say if I called her, and all I wanted was a little peace of mind and sleep.
You know what's even worse? 90% sure she met him before those 3 weeks.
@@joetowers4804 I've definitely considered that, but never asked.
@@joetowers4804 Definitely left him to shack up with the other guy who she was having an affair with
You commenters have deep-seated issues.
@@CikisHelyzet definitely, kicking someone when they're down is a sure sign of a coward
John did the down a half step from the I chord trick twice on White Album: I'm So Tired (in A) and Sexy Sadie (in G). But on SS, he goes G-F# to the Bm (III chord). Then the IV and V chords. I have a special affection for "I'm So Tired" because it got me back into music after I had left it for half a decade. We had babies two years apart and I was really, really tired for a multi-year period. So finally I picked up the acoustic and started singing the song. It's amazing how good it feels to vent through music.
See Alan Pollack's analysis for a discussion about the use of the G-sharp chord: www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/ist.shtml
Interesting. Makes me wonder if it's a coincidence that those two songs are my favorite Beatle songs. 😆
the sexy sadie progression was actually nicked by radiohead for the chorus of karma police, really interesting
@john wesson The initials of the song I referenced in the previous sentence.
@@theverdicts5616 Although Radiohead reversed the order of the progression, starting with the IV and V chords, which would be fine by itself. But then they compounded the obvious theft by using a very similar piano line over the progression. It's like on "Creep", in the verses they use the Hollies chords from the verses of "Air That I Breathe". And they might have gotten away with it,, but then decided to go back and cop the Hollies' melody line in the bridge of their song. You can't do that, guys!
I played a lot of Beatles in the car with my kids, and this was one of my daughter's favorites when she was little. Which is odd, because she's never been a sleepy type. I think she just liked how well John conveyed the mood.
That's the thing about the Beatles. You don't even have to understand the lyrics to love the music. My mom played Beatles for me every day as a kid and I loved it not understanding a word. And now that I do I like them even more. That is something few bands can do.
Quite fitting actually as the song is about not being able to sleep
'Git' is mostly a mild curse word, despite its more murky origins! 'You stupid git' was a very common mild insult when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies
In the Harry Potter series book "Goblet of Fire." The word "git" is used as a derogatory term for a "sorry friend" or some sort of betrayal of their friendship.
It was used in a mildly shocking way on the comteporary BBC comedy show Till Death Us Do Part (1965-75). there's an indication of its shock value in this story from the author Jonny Speight, comparing it to racist language also present in the show.
"For the time, and for a family sitcom, Till Death Us Do Part reflected this by being genuinely near the mark with its language. While the show’s BBC producers were not, in that day and age, particularly worried about Alf’s use of racist slurs like "darkie" and "coon", they were horrified at the number of times words such as "damn", "git" and "bloody" came up.
Speight often had to spend hours negotiating over this, resulting in some of the most surreal TV script meetings of all time: "We can lose two ‘gits’ and a ‘damn’ but we need to keep his ‘arse’ - how can he sit down without an arse?"
I got called a git the other day
I use git and github everyday at work
Graham Chapman says it in the Monty Python "arguement" sketch.
Having had insomnia since childhood, I have long identified with this tune. Going days and nights with no sleep can be maddening.
It should be noted that this song uses the same E aug chord ("should I call you") also used later in "Oh! Darling". Kind of a unique chord.
And before as well - in "It's Only Love" from Help. In the verse when they sing "my oh my".
It is (almost!) unique for guitarists as it can be seen as having any of the 3 constituent notes as the root (sorry , that's a poor way of describing it).
But it is distinctive.
The naughty chord
Seriously dude, you're the best when it comes to these types of videos. I love your presentation of it all. Cheers
Always one of my favorite Lennon songs from The White Album
There’s an interesting podcast called Another Kind of Mind that re-examines the last few years of the Beatles. They have an interesting take on this song that it’s about Paul.
Hi Mr. HollyHobs! Once again, I’d just like to say you do fantastic with your videos and I appreciate all the effort you put in! Keep up the amazing work!!!
I agree!
Also the chords for the na na na section were lifted from Dear mister fantasy by Traffic. Paul once said a good songwriter borrows from other songs. A great songwriter steals from them.He is a musical genius
I'm only 48 years old and was born just after Beatle thing but loved their music growing up thanks to my late mother vassa
You'll be relieved to know, Mr Hollyhob, that in British English, git is but a mild curse word. About 2 or 3 at most out of 10 on the cuss-o-meter. Interesting video as usual.
Yeah it is a tame curse word ...almost archaic now...I'm a Yorkshireman so I know the word very well....we also say ' get ' ...you stupid get ....
I am tired but was going to start to study for my test tomorrow. Then i saw this video... i had to click on it
NO WAY SAMEEEE
He used a very similar chord progression but in a different key in "Sexy Sadie." The second chord is a half step down from the first chord in exactly the same way. The main difference is you get the iii chord in there instead of the vi.
One of my favorite songs from the beatles which means one of my favorite songs ever. It's incredibly underrated
Kudos on quitting cigarettes after 10 years 🙌🏽
I quit after 30 years. 20 years ago, my best advice stay away from them. Girls don't like to kiss a mouth that smells and tastes like an ashtray. Guys that smoke don't care because most of the girls they kiss smell like an ashtray too. People can say, I can quit anytime, oh yeah, why not now? Dying from lungs that look like charcoal briquettes is not pretty and it's sad that they can be begging god for one more breath, when he gives it to them, they go outside and have a smoke. I've seen it, I worked in a hospital for 10 years. It would kill me to see a beautiful 20 year old girl dying from cancer, pushing an IV pole around the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. SAD, SAD, SAD. All it does is prove you are weak--yep, you have a monkey on your back.
@@jumpercable20 after 35 years of smoking.. / I havent had a cigarette in 29 days ..🚭🚭🚭🚭
.🧡💬 if you dont smoke PLEASE dont start
@@jumpercable20 Smoking cigarettes doesn’t turn your lungs this black. It’s called the black lung myth, popularized by Hitler in the 30’s. Smokers donate their lungs all the time, and they end up looking normal. Smoking isn’t healthy, but then turning lungs black is an absolute myth.
@@LazyLizzy706 it’s not a myth...black lung disease resulted from working in coal mines but smoking damages lungs as well. The good news is they begin repairing themselves as soon as a person quits smoking. Unfortunately other effects of smoking such as heart disease & COPD are non-reversible.
I came from a family of smokers and have always hated it. My father was one of the toughest men I ever knew but he died from a massive heart attack at the age of 62. My mother died recently from COPD & her smoking caused my youngest sister to have a lifelong case of severe asthma. My brother also suffers from COPD & has to bring an oxygen tank with him everywhere he goes. He’s had many near death experiences. I agree with John. It’s the only aspect of my Native American heritage of which I’m ashamed.
I just feel bad for Cynthia, what a lovely woman she is.
Oh my gosh man! I absolutely adore your voice! Great job, and great song:)
I used to cover I'm So Tired at gigs & when I'd play for people, great song!
John was a very critical thinker. IMO his self deprecation came from his own insecurities & the fact that many of us are our own worst critics because we always think we can do better. John was never stagnant. He was always evolving. One can only speculate how he would have felt given time. Anyone who hasn’t heard Sean’s wonderful celebration of John’s 80th birthday really needs to check it out. He interviews McCartney, Julian, & Elton John concerning his father. Sean shows impressive insight toward understanding John as well as getting past all the critics (and wannabes) to see the similarities between John & Paul’s respective solo debuts.
From an Englishman of a certain age who remembers swinging London well, to American of another age, you explained and mastered the word "Git" beautifully. I feel if you said "shut up you old git", I would feel genuinely offended. 🇬🇧🇺🇸Love your channel. Respect.
John also sang Revolution 1 while lying on the floor. Was that for sound or just laziness?
I'm pretty sure he utilized the bed that he had brought in the studio for Yoko during Abbey Road a couple of times too.
We must not forget that John wrote two White Album songs about sleeping- I'm So Tired and Goodnight.
So was John lazy? Possibly.
Brilliant? Without a doubt.
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@@oldsensei8350 I agree, my friend.
John has said in quite a few videos that he is lazy and loves to sleep more then anything. But it's all well and good because he gave us so much when awake he gets a pass.
Mr. Hobbs, I wish you were my best friend and we could just hang out and talk about the greatest band of all time
What a good singing voice. What endearing presentation of an interesting video. Thank you.
I find myself singing ' ba ba ba ba ba.... ' To your Blue Moon
You rock
" I'll give you everything I've got for a little piece of mind'
Lmao, that cussing streak
Fucking fantastic 😆🤘👌
My lifelong favorite Lennon track, and very possibly my favorite Beatles song of all.
that’s a bit of a stretch saying he was talking about Smokey Robinson because he wrote “Smokey voice” at the top of the page... Women have been laying on top of pianos using a smoky voice for decades...
Be quiet, predator! 😒
Nobody cares what you think.
@@CikisHelyzet I highly doubt that is actually Brian Warner. The pic is him but I don't think the actual Brain Warner aka Marilyn Manson is on here commenting about Smokey Robinson lol. I actually knew the guy before he was signed and he was kind of quiet and reserved... but once fame hit well we all know how it went. The ego gets so big they think they can get away with anything.. and they do most of the time.
I have a few interesting facts that you may want to work with. In an interview Paul gave in the early 70s Paul said he got the chords for the verses from a song by the Drifters called Save the last dance for me. If you match them up it's almost exact. When Paul sings "remember " the Drifters sing "dont forget " and the same place in the song. You must check this out because very few know about this
"Sir Walter Raleigh... was such a stupid get."
I always understood that line in the context that it was commonly believed that if Raleigh had made landfall a few miles further along the coast, he'd have made contact with one of the local tribes who used marijuana rather than tobacco. Lennon is supposedly cursing Raleigh because cannabis would not have been illegal if it had caught on in England before tobacco did.
In reality, Raleigh DID bring marijuana back too but the upper class kept it to themselves. However, it's a better joke if you ignore the facts and stick to the myth!
No it’s just about Walter being credited for tobacco, not necessarily anything to do with a preference for cannabis.
I would love to play Beatle music with this guy. The history he obviously possess would make for good studio and performance motivation.
Of all the fantastic music The Beatles made, as well as post-Beatles, probably my two favourite tracks of all run together.........I'm so tired and Blackbird.
Another great video man! Well done! Always look forward to learn more about the foursome
The Beatles wrote like 50 songs while in India. So if it was drugs, meditation, being tired or not sleeping, whatever it was did inspire a crap ton of great songs.
Thanks Always very interesting
Hi, I hope you make again video like this about "you won't see me" cauz i want to know what is the real story behind of it.
Love,
one of your viewers in philippines
“I’m only sleeping” is my family’s theme song. We are not wired to get up in the am.
A band I was in years ago, used to do a punk-ish double time version of this song. So much fun to play.
As a child, I used to think the the sir Walter Raleigh line was "curse these walls around me, so much Cupids regret"
I love the way you hit that high note at the end of Happiness is a Warm Gun. I was wondering if you would make it or not.
Lol
Not quite the falsetto of John but he pulled it off.
Lots of great info here!! Another great video. Honestly the highlight for me though was hearing you sing. Your voice is so lovely! Been a while since I heard it in a video!
Great video! I always thought the song was about John's frustrations with trying to communicate with Paul, after Yoko had fully entered the picture. But of course, Paul was dead, so how silly was that.
I love Johns voice.
You'd say, I'm putting you on but it's no joke it's doing me harm
Thanks for all you do!! Always enjoy you personally on your videos
This guy does great Beatle covers. Love his insight too.
goddamnit man i was about to sleep
This song also highly reminds me of Peggy Lee's "Black Coffee"(1949) They have the same second line and mention cigarettes.
Here are some of the lyrics:
I'm feelin' mighty lonesome
Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor from nine to four
In between I drink
Black coffee
Love's a hand-me-down brew
I'll never know a Sunday
In this weekday room
I'm talkin to the shadow
One o'clock till four
And Lord, how slow the moments go
And all I do is pour
Black coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hangin' out on Monday
My Sunday dreams to dry
Now man was born to go a lovin'
But was a woman born to weep and fret
And stay at home and tend her oven
And down her past regrets
In coffee and cigarettes
damn, i love when i find people MORE obsessed with the same stuff as i do
What a great video! I love your style of making videos about the history of the songs, it's so interesting!
Thanks for your vids man, always interesting. And you have a really good voice too.
Love ur videos, I’ve learnt so much more about the beatles !!!! Keep the vids coming
Almost broke a finger hitting that Like button. Haha your humor and style just vibes well with me
Yes!!
How about it eh? A sing off?
@Luke agreed
Great video. A lot of News for me in it. Like it format with you playing the examples. Thanks. 👌🏽🍀
Your cover of I'm So Tired is so amazing!!
I always associated this song with kicking heroin. I didn't sleep for weeks while withdrawing from Xanax and opiates except for a few minutes at a time and kind of just hallucinating. Some people say " no no no, you would be dead" but whatever. I share this because this song along with many others really helped me back then. I'm lucky to have made it out of that living hell with a little help from the beatles.
The mumbling at the end is in keeping with the song, I think John intended it to be there but needed to disguise what he was saying, having not yet told his wife about his feelings for Yoko.. I think the very end bit is just wordless muttering, but the first part to me sounds like " I miss you, I miss you, I miss you! My bed's an oven..." If he had called Yoko, this is what he would have probably told her. As well as the imposed isolation, his smoking and his regular sleep patterns broken, being unaccustomed to the Indian heat would have added to his restlessness.
This song hits hard after an all nighter
Ive loved this channel before you had even a 1000 subscribers.
And I find myself watching these videos late at night, when I cant sleep at night and when I'm so tired.
Keep it up man love you.
Truly every time I see one of your videos my day just gets better. Thanks man.
i need a full cover of im so tired by u pls
Hello Hollyhobs can you do Piggies next
Yes, great suggestion!
@@Cargoshots well I dont :>
My favorite song from the white album and over all
Awesome video - I love that song! I always wondered about that "get" meaning too! ☮💚🙂🎶
One of my all time favorites
way to bang out that falsetto on "Happiness is a Warm Gun" man !! ^^
I always thought that lyric was "& curse the walls around me, u were such a stupid Git". ( No offense to Lennon & his reference to Sir Walter Raleigh but I like my "version" as well since I do that when I have Insomnia 🙄..)
@Luke Thanks! 🙂
within you without you please!!!
Dear Mr. Hollyhob
I can remember as a young girl in the 60s, a line or 2 of the Beatles song Getting Better being used in a commercial. Judging by where I was living at the time, it couldn’t be any later than 1970 or 71. I believe it was an ad about vocations, or something educational. I could be wrong. But I remember hearing the song! I can’t find it anywhere on the Internet. I was wondering if you can do some research, or if you’re familiar with it.
Thanks!
Another great video (about a great song). :) thank you!
I smoked for about 10 years as well, from age 16-17 to 27, so maybe close to 11. I still miss it occasionally but I'm glad I quit, I forgot what food tasted like, what flowers smelled like, or what a good mood it would put me in to smell my GF's perfume when I walked into the house after work.
Great tune!!!!! Hahah too funny Git/Get section🤣
My favorite Beatles song...
Sweet. You sing and play very well. The details are cool. Thanks.
Im so tired, I thought he was getting over withdraws, great song and glad John sung it, White Album, never get sick of it
thank you sooo much for your videos they are truly life changinging for me and im sure others. again thank you so very much!!!
Always great content... Thank you so very much!!!
Great video. This song brought me and my soulmate together over a mutual love of / obsession with the Beatles. And I was born on the day John Lennon was murdered.
U have a lovely voice, btw.
One of my favorites
I liked some of your insights on this. Have you done one on I'm Only Sleeping?
Gracias por compartir, genial. Tienes una voz muy bonita 👍
Listen to this almost every night
It sounds like he says either "Julia" or "Juian" at the very tail end of his murmuring @6:15-6:17. Like he's doing a French accent saying "How 'bout ze nother one? Julia?"
I feel like I've heard that, I don't like my own voice, from so many amazing singers. Feels like a very common thing.
I grew up in the north of England in the 60’s and there was definitely two different terms - both ‘git’ and ‘get’ were commonly used slang insults. They may have the same derivations but the two words definitely existed side by side.
Everybody knows this song because of the Sir Walter Raleigh line. That is why so many people started to read up about him because of the line in the song
Great work on breaking this down.
Always thoughtful and well done.
I'm not quite convinced about the Smokey Robinson thing. Regardless of him being a fan. From a lyricists perspective (and from someone who has stupid amounts of lyrics written ) It sounds to me that he wanted a "smokey" voice meaning he wanted it to be slightly breathless and tired but would then pick it up with "heavy" (possibly in this case relating more to anguish and exasperation devolved from the situation) It just makes more sense to me than him wanting to emulate Smokey Robinson's almost sweet voice.
But I guess the only one with the answer is no longer with us! :S (P.S. Great videos!) xx
I’m an American, and ever since I got the album upon its release (well, my older brother got it and I stole it) I thought I’m So Tired was one of my favorite tracks. I pretty much knew what they were talking about by calling Sir Walter Raleigh a stupid “get”.
The Lennon Chord Progression study was most enlightening, as was your sweater. This is great stuff tho yes
"I git it." and your face afterwards. That's what made me want to leave a like!
Narcolepsy is a brain disorder, not a tendency to want to rest or to be low-energy. A person with narcolepsy can't control how/where they fall asleep -- even standing up, in public, etc. A person with narcolepsy won't have chronic insomnia. John did not have narcolepsy. He was more likely suffering from depression, probably his whole life -- possibly due to inherited factors, but likely he was set up for it when his father deserted the family when John was only three y.o.; and later, when he was forced to live with his Aunt Mimi instead of his beloved mother; and then, when his mother was tragically killed, when John was a teenager. John even tried primal scream therapy in the 70s, when it was a fad (largely discredited now), and he later said it didn't work for him. He was a troubled guy, and people suffering from depression are often low-energy, listless, have a hard time getting out of bed, etc.
Love your stories and your honesty. Thanks.
Love this song and John!
Did Hollyhob’s rendition of So Tired get cut out of this video by Hollyhob or RUclips?
Love your videos man. Thanks for doing them.
9:39 DUDE, NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘 Thanks for posting!