Beatles: Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da Meaning

Song Released: 1968

Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da Lyrics

Desmond has a barrow in the market place
Molly is the singer in a band
Desmond says to Molly - girl I like your face
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand.
Chorus:
Obladi oblada life goes on bra
Lala how the life goes on
Obladi...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 27th 2008 !⃝

   The song only show how love between two people can be simple.
2. anonymous

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   Nov 25th 2007 !⃝

   Actually, they flubbed the names when they repeated the last verse. It's supposed to be "Molly stays at home and does her pretty face", like in the first iteration of the song. They didn't feel like redoing it, though, so they left it for nutjobs to misinterpret.
3. anonymous

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   Oct 26th 2007 !⃝

   Kay Got Ya Here It's About two transvestites that get married and have kids in the very last verse on the white album version, "Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face and in the evening she's a singer with the band" That's my reasoning.....

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
4. anonymous

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   Aug 28th 2007 !⃝

   When they were in India with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, there was a man at the camp with them who would say the term obl-di, obla-da, life goes on bra.
5. anonymous

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   Aug 28th 2007 !⃝

   This song is about how two people can come together and love each other and can just get along and have simple fun and have no major cares in the world and it's about doing what you want no matter what and having a good life
6. anonymous

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   Jul 26th 2007 !⃝

   It's about two people starting a relationship in a very simplistic manner. That's all there is.
7. anonymous

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   May 8th 2007 !⃝

   This is about how having unprotected sex will ruin your life.
8. anonymous

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   Jan 31st 2007 !⃝

   Now, when I read the lyrics I don't see where I got this idea, but when I hear the song I always picture a black man and a white woman, probably because of the name Desmond.
9. anonymous

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   Jan 21st 2007 !⃝

   whatever, but that hardly answers any questions about the lyrics, now does it?? FG

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