(Chorus) Em C G D C Do you need anybody? I just need someone to love. D C What do you see when you turn out the light? Am D7 G I can't tell you but I know it's mine. Verse 3 G D C Would you believe in a love at first sight? Am D7 G Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time. Em C G D C Could it be anybody? I want somebody to love. (Chorus) Em C G D C Do you need anybody? I need somebody to love. D (into 2nd verse) Verse 2 G D C What do I do when my love is away? Am D7 G Does it worry you to be alone? D C How do I feel by the end of the day Am D7 G Are you sad because you're on your own? No. Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends. Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends. Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends. Mm, F C G Gonna try with a little help from my friends. Would you stand up and walk out on me Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song. Mm, F C G I get high with a little help from my friends. Chorus F C G I get by with a little help from my friends. Available in print and all digital formats.I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends John Lennon and Paul McCartney G D C What would you think if I sang out of tune Am D7 G Would you stand up and walk out on me? D C Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song Am D7 G And I'll try not to sing out of key. We have a book! The Beatles – I Was There which contains over 400 eyewitness accounts from fans who saw The Beatles live in concert. McCartney hilariously claimed some fans gave the seeds to him and that he didn’t know what they would grow. In 1973 Paul McCartney was fined £100 ($170) for growing cannabis at his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. Mm, Gonna try with a little help from my friends. Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song. (I’m told you can see Jagger smoking a rather large cigarette in the Beatles “All You Need Is Love” promo film.) What would you think if I sang out of tune Would you stand up and walk out on me.
Both Mick Jagger and Brian Jones were also arrested for possession. He was sentenced to one year in jail but his conviction was quashed by appeal court. In 1967 Rolling Stone Keith Richard was found guilty of allowing his house to be used for the illegal smoking of cannabis. This was the swinging ’60s, and everyone was at it, but the trick was not to get on the wrong side of the law. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.” John Lennon later stated, “The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. More joints were rolled and the Beatles spent the next few hours in hilarity, with Dylan watching in amusement. Dylan rolled the first joint and passed it to John Lennon who immediately passed it to Ringo Starr, whom he called his “Royal Taster.” Because the drummer didn’t know the etiquette of sharing a joint, he finished the whole thing himself. “Till then we’d been hard scotch and Coke men,” admitted Paul McCartney. So, Bob and mutual journalist friend Al Aronowitz introduced the Fab Four to marijuana. Taking the drug also seemed to make their music sound more imaginative and unique, at least to those who played and listened while under its influence.ĭylan had wrongly assumed that the Fab Four were already pot heads, after mishearing the lyrics to “I Want To Hold Your hand” which he thought were “and when I touch you I get high, I get high…” The actual words are ‘I can’t hide, I can’t hide, I can’t hide…'” Unlike alcohol, which dulled and incapacitated the senses, marijuana enabled musicians whose job required them to play long and exhausting sets. It was with these musicians that marijuana became an integral part of the jazz era. BOYCOTT: The Beatles have withheld their music from Spotify. I need to be careful what I say here, but as we all know, some people with artistic tendencies like the odd puff on a herbal.Īccording to cannabis historian Ernest Abel, the connection between music and marijuana began with jazz musicians in New Orleans around 1910. Dylan and mutual journalist friend Al Aronowitz introduce the Fab Four to marijuana. On 28th Aug 1964, after playing a show at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York, The Beatles met Bob Dylan for the first time at The Delmonico Hotel.