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John Lennon: Vocals, acoustic guitar
Paul McCartney: Bass guitar
George Harrison: Electric guitar
Ringo Starr: Drums
George Martin: Piano

Recorded September 11 1963.

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Even as early as in 1963, Lennon and McCartney were already receiving critical acclaim for their song writing abilitites. William Mann, for instance, music critic of The Times newspaper (UK), compared Not A Second Time to Gustav Mahler’s Song Of The Earth.

”Harmonic interest is typical of their quicker songs too,” Mann wrote, ”and one gets the impression that they think simultaneously of harmony and melody, so firmly are the major tonic sevenths and ninths built into their tunes, and the flat-submediant key-switches, so natural is the Aeolian cadence at the end of ’Not A Second Time’…”

Lennon later said that he thought the term ’Aeolian cadence’ referred to an exotic bird.

Not a Second Time

You know you made me cry
I see no use in wond’ring why
I cried for you
And now, you’ve changed your mind
I see no reason to change mine
I cried, it’s through, oh

Oh, you’re giving me the same old line
I’m wond’ring why
You hurt me then, you’re back again
No, no, not a second time

You know you made me cry
I see no use in wond’ring why
I cried for you, yeah
And now, you’ve changed your mind
I see no reason to change mine
I cried, it’s through, oh

Oh, you’re giving me the same old line
I’m wond’ring why
You hurt me then, you’re back again
No, no, not a second time