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You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
John Lennon: Vocals, acoustic guitar
Paul McCartney: Acoustic guitar
George Harrison: Acoustic guitar
Ringo Starr: Tambourine, shaker, maracas
Johnnie Scott: Flutes
Recorded
18 February 1965
Available
on:
Help!
Anthology 2
The Beatles 1962-1966 (Red Album)
The Beatles
met Bob Dylan for the first time in New York during their
1964 US tour. John Lennon was in particular inspired by
this American (then) folk singer, both musically and lyrically.
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away is a direct result of
Dylan's influence on Lennon. In fact it's not hard to imagine
Dylan singing the song instead of Lennon!
The song may have been about the Beatles' manager, Brian
Epstein, who was a homosexual (Epstein died of a drug overdose
on August 27 1967, some claim it was suicide.)
This recording
was the first time the Beatles used a session musician (with
the exception of Love
Me Do, on which Andy White plays drums.)
Johnnie Scott plays flutes on the song, but he was not credited
on the record. Scott, who also was a musical arranger, working
with such artists as Cilla Black, later said in Mark Lewisohn's
book The
Complete Beatles Recording Sessions:
"They
told me roughly what they wanted, 3/4 time, and the best
way of fulfilling their needs was to play both tenor flute
and alto flute, the second as an overdub. As I recall, all
four of them were there and Ringo was full of maritial joys,
he'd just come back from his honeymoon." (Ringo married
Maureen Cox on February 11)
Lennon's childhood friend Pete Shotton was in the studio
with the Beatles during the recording of the song, and apparently
added some 'heys' to the chorus.
In true Dylan-style (at the time), no electric instruments
were used on the recording of You've Got To Hide Your Love
Away.
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
(John Lennon/Paul McCartney)
Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feeling two foot small
Everywhere people stare
each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey you've
got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away
How can
I even try?
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I'm in
How could she say to me
"Love will find a way?"
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say
Hey you've
got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away
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