"Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released on their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). Short and simple, it was written[2][3] and sung by Paul McCartney,[4][5] but credited…<\/div>
Continue reading on Wikipedia \u2192<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n[It’s worth reading the Beatles Bible entries (like the one embedded above) for each song: lots of interesting quotes and background as well as linking to the recordings.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like the preceding tracks in this run of four from the White Album it is the result of the Beatles working separately on individual, fragmented ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This one is Paul McCartney\u2019s with Ringo contributing extra drums, but no involvement from John or George who were working on other tracks at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coming in at less than 2 minutes, it has only a simple lyric \u201cWhy don\u2019t we do it in the road? No one will be watching us, why don\u2019t we do it in the road?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inspired by seeing monkeys\u2019 uncomplicated mating, the song is deliberately unsophisticated but it has a certain energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe it\u2019s just me but it seems to share DNA with the much stronger Helter Skelter which had been recorded a little earlier and was fleshed out as a proper song but has a similar direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a short and simple song that seems promising but unfinished. [It’s worth reading the Beatles Bible entries (like the one embedded above) for each song: lots of interesting quotes and background as well as linking to the recordings.] Like the preceding tracks in this run of four from the White Album it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-a-day","tag-white-album"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomhartley.me.uk\/beatles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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