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John Lennon also wrote a song based on Maharishi's lectures, entitled Child of Nature. This song, however, was never recoded properly during the White Album sessions. Instead, Lennon later rewrote the song, and released it under the title Jelaous Guy on the solo album Imagine from 1971.

Alan Brown, who was technical engineer for the Mother Nature's Son session on August 20, said in Mark Lewisohn's book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions that the drums, which were played by Paul, were recorded in the corridor outside the actual studio in order to create a special sound.

"Paul wanted an open effect on his drums [to give a bongos sound] and we ended up leaving the studio itself and putting the drums in the corridor, halfway down, with mikes at the far end. It wasn't carpeted then and it gave it an interesting staccato effect," he said.

There was a lot of tension between the four Beatles members at this time, which probably explains why Paul recorded the song without help from the others.

Engineer Ken Scott said in The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions that he recalled one particular moment during this recording which illustrated this.

"Paul was downstairs going through the arrangement with George [Martin] and the brass players. Everything was great, everything was in great spirits. It felt reall good. Suddenly, half way through, John and Ringo walked in and you could cut the atmosphere with a knife. An instant change. It was like that for ten minutes and then as soon as they left it felt great again. It was very bizarre."

At the same time as Mother Nature's Son was being recorded, Russia was invading Czechoslovakia.

Mother Nature's Son

Sit beside a mountain stream
See her waters rise
Listen to the pretty
sound of music as she flies
tu tu tu, tu, du tu

Find me in my field of grass
Mother Nature's Son
swaying daisies sing
a lazy song beneath the sun
tu tu, yeah yeah yeah

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