Beatles: Why Don't We Do It In The Road Meaning

Song Released: 1968

Why Don't We Do It In The Road Lyrics

Why don't we do it in the road
Why don't we do it in the road
Why don't we do it in the road
Why don't we do it in the road
No one will be watching us
Why don't we do it in the road
Why don't we do it in the road
Why don't we do it in the...

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   batmark88

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   Jan 26th 2009 !⃝

   It's about convincing someone to have sex in the middle of a road...
   Yep.
   Pretty sure that's right guys.
2. anonymous

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   Jul 24th 2021 !⃝

   This sing WHY DON'T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD is just a silly rocker that was done really fast with just Paul and Ringo. Paul said of the song that he saw 2 monkeys 'doing it' on the road in India.
   "A male [monkey] just hopped on the back of this female and gave her one, as they say in the vernacular. Within two or three seconds he hopped off again and looked around as if to say "It wasn't me!" and she looked around as if there'd been some mild disturbance ... And I thought ... that's how simple the act of procreation is ... We have horrendous problems with it, and yet animals don't."
   
   As far as other songs Maxwell's Silver Hammer , Max was NOT Kurt Cobain.
   First of all, Kurt Cobain was BORN in 1967. The Beatles would have had NO idea who he was. So that is absurd.
   
   Jude was Julian Lennon. Paul wrote "Hey Jude" for him.
   It was about Lennon's divorcing Cynthia Lennon. That has been documented in the Beatles Anthology and elsewhere.
   
   LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS,
   Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the sky with diamonds". Shortly before the album's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled "LSD", the initialism commonly used for the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide. Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song. He attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books.
   Lucy was a schoolmate of Julian's. Lucy Vodden, the subject of a Julian Lennon drawing that inspired his father, John, to write the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s classic “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” passed away last week after a long battle with lupus. Vodden, formerly Lucy O’ Donnell, was 46. In a statement, Julian and his mother Cynthia Lennon said they were “shocked and saddened” by Vodden’s death, the Associated Press reports.
   
   Lennon once said of the song Sexy Sadie "That was inspired by Maharishi. I wrote it when we had our bags packed and were leaving. It was the last piece I wrote before I left India. I just called him 'Sexy Sadie' instead of (sings) 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool...' I was just using the situation to write a song, rather calculatingly but also to express what I felt. I was leaving the Maharishi with a bad taste. You know, it seems that my partings are always not as nice as I'd like them to be."
   
   Joseph See [JoJo]as in the song GET BACK, was Linda McCartney's first husband. They lived in southern Arizona and had a daughter named Heather. Joe was an archaeologist and travelled for many months at a time. He went to South Africa on a dig and when he came back, Linda had taken Heather and left him. She divorced Joe and eventually met Paul through mutual friends. They married and Paul eventually adopted Heather.
   Joe never got over Linda and used to stay with the McCartneys when visiting his daughter.
   
   Paul and Linda bought a horse ranch in Tucson, AZ.
   Linda died there from breast cancer.
   
   Just a few miles from See's home. Linda and Joe remained friends and would visit when in AZ.
   
   
   
   
   
3. anonymous

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   Apr 29th 2019 !⃝

   I thought this was about love making
4. anonymous

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   Oct 30th 2016 !⃝

   We used to do it in the road when I was a kid living in a working class area of London. It means pissing or urinating in the road! Disgusting now I know but in the late fifties, early sixties, more common among young (male) kids than you might imagine!
5. anonymous

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   Jul 12th 2013 !⃝

   I think the entire White Album was a response to critics saying the Beatles only played one kind of music and wouldn't be popular in America if they would have been born American. They couldn't do "American" music. All of the songs on the White album seem to spoof American musical styles. "Why Don't We Do It In the Road" spoofs raunchy rock with meaningless lyrics about sex. Rocky Raccoon-Appalachian folk music. Happiness is a Warm Gun...
6. anonymous

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   Jan 10th 2013 !⃝

   I saw an inter view with Lennon on you tune and he said that people fight in the middle of the street and fights break out in the city in front of everyone, crime and Violence. Why do people do that in the street (road) but you never see love on the streets. Why do we kill eachother on the streets when we could be having free love in the streets?
7. anonymous

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   Sep 14th 2011 !⃝

   The song is about an argument the band had over the photo shoot for the abbey road album cover. They did not have an idea for the cover when Paul McCartney suggested they "do it in the road" right outside the studio. Management and the producers argued against it debating that it would cause a huge scene once people noticed the Beatles in public and it would be a waste of time and money. The argument between the band and management resulted in the song "Why Don't We Do It in The Road" released on their 1968 album The Beatles, commonly referred to as The White Album. The story of Paul and the monkeys is a rumor that circulated shortly following the release.
8. anonymous

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   May 25th 2011 !⃝

   When in India, Paul saw two monkeys having sex in the road. He thought about how easy it was for animals to just do these things compared to the complicated human rituals of sex.
9. anonymous

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   Apr 24th 2011 !⃝

   It was said in starchy, moralistic Victorian England, you can do! anything you want as long as you don't do it in the road.
10. anonymous

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    Jan 5th 2011 !⃝

    It was only paul and ringo in this song one of the few songs recorded without the whole band
11. anonymous

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    Aug 15th 2010 !⃝

    obviously there are some good interpretations here. But John Lennon had nothing to do with this song. Paul wrote it and recorded it without the band... Lennon got pissed off about it because it was his style all the way and Paul left him out of the recording.
    Paul got the idea while watching a male monkey jump on a female and jump back off after he planted his seed within a matter of seconds acting as if nothing had happened. It just so happened, the monkeys were walking down the road as it happened. Paul tells the story in one of the books about the Beatles. I forget which one though
12. anonymous

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    Jun 24th 2010 !⃝

    Does anyone think that it's kind of funny how "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", a very raunchy song, is followed by "I Will", a sweet and tender ballad?
13. beatlesholic13

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    Jun 21st 2010 !⃝

    Well, how many of you have ever seen the Anthology's? I think it was there where Paul said that when they were in India (Where most of the songs on the White Album were written) that he saw two monkeys doing "it" in the middle of the road.
    Paul McCartney wrote the song after seeing two monkeys copulating in the street while on retreat in Rishikesh, India, with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He marveled in the simplicity of this natural scenario when compared to the emotional turmoil of human relationships. He later said:
    "A male [monkey] just hopped on the back of this female and gave her one, as they say in the vernacular. Within two or three seconds he hopped off again and looked around as if to say, ‘It wasn't me,’ and she looked around as if there'd been some mild disturbance ... And I thought ... that's how simple the act of procreation is ... We have horrendous problems with it, and yet animals don't.
14. anonymous

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    Jun 13th 2010 !⃝

    This song isn't a hidden meaning type of song. It's as plain as it sounds. Just one person, convinving the other person to have sex in the road.
15. anonymous

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    Dec 19th 2009 !⃝

    Why are people even talking about Sexie Sadie under "Why Don't We Do it In the Road?" :) I think the song is pretty straight forward. It's a "naughty" little Paul song from the White Album. The repetitions of the lyric and roughness of the music are more about creating a mood than making literal sense. It's meant to conjure up something raunchy I think, insert your own raunchy idea.
16. anonymous

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    Aug 14th 2009 !⃝

    Adding to the Across the Universe rant above. Max is also supposed to be Kurt Cobain.

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