John Lennon: Come Together Meaning

Come Together Lyrics

Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot...

1. bbchips

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   Jan 24th 2008 !⃝

   This is John Lennon's ode to his rock hero Chuck Berry and his song You Can't Catch Me. When Lennon started singing it in the studio, Paul said it sounds too much like Chuck Berry's and suggested to slow the tempo, which he did.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
2. eraser999

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   Jul 11th 2006 !⃝

   In a book I own, called "A Hard Day's Write", all of the "back-stories" of Beatles songs are explained in great detail, with some of the people and events that inspired them.
   
   This song was originally written as a campaign song for none other than LSD-enthusiast Timothy Leary. John wrote it for him, with the original lyrics being something close to "Come together, join the party". Leary was arrested for possession of marijuana and sent to prison, so John wrote the current lyrics (admittedly nonsensical and a complete excercise in wordplay). When Leary got out of jail, he asked John why he sold the song promised for his campaign. John replied, "I'm a tailor. You didn't want the song, so I changed it and sold it to someone else"
3. stublues

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   Feb 17th 2006 !⃝

   Actually it was just an exercise in word play. If you read his books you'll run into this quite a bit. He said that the lyrics were "daft." He jotted down the first words that came to mind...
4. lennono

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   Oct 15th 2005 !⃝

   Oh yeah- I forgot to cite the fact that Ringo had a notorious cocaine (and alcohol) habit dating to/before the period of Abbey Road.

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