“If you don't take her out tonight”
Lennon's confrontational warning to a rival, written at his Weybridge home in the if/then conditional logic he favored. The last Help! album track recorded before the band flew to the Bahamas for filming, featuring Ringo's bongos as an early Latin-percussion experiment. The band performs it in the recording-studio scene of the Help! film.
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This song is the only Beatles song with the BABABCCBCAB song form.
Songwriter(s)LennonCredited as Lennon–McCartney
RecordedFebruary 19 – March 30, 1965
ReleasedAugust 6, 1965
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[ADJ] one[NOUN] my[NOUN] yes[WORD] cangonna [WORD]out [ADV]what [WORD][ADV] from you[NOUN] my [NOUN][VERB] her out[VERB] what yoube the [ADJ]don't [VERB] herher [NOUN] she'syou [VERB] heryou're gonna [VERB][NOUN] i will [VERB][NOUN] i'm gonna [VERB][VERB] her [NOUN] andbe the [ADJ] onegonna [VERB] that [NOUN]i will [VERB] heri'll [VERB] a [NOUN]i'm gonna [VERB] heryou don't [VERB] heri'm gonna [VERB] her [NOUN]the [NOUN] you [VERB] heryou're gonna [VERB] that [NOUN]
Cover-shared shape
[ADV] from[NOUN] and[NOUN] i[NOUN] i'm[NOUN] you[VERB] a[VERB] her[VERB] she's[VERB] that[VERB] what[VERB] you're[WORD] yesa [NOUN]don't [VERB]gonna [VERB]her [ADV]her [NOUN]i'll [VERB]my [NOUN]of [VERB]that [NOUN]the [ADJ]the [NOUN]will [VERB]you [VERB][NOUN] you [VERB][VERB] a [NOUN][VERB] her [ADV][VERB] her [NOUN][VERB] that [NOUN]i will [VERB]i'm gonna [VERB]you don't [VERB]and i will [VERB]if you don't [VERB]the [NOUN] you [VERB]
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Tags on this page are original analysis, transcribed and cross-checked against the fine work of others: Alan W. Pollack's “Notes on…” series, the Beatles Complete Scores (Hal Leonard), Mark Lewisohn's session histories, Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head, Dave Rybaczewski's Beatles Music History and Andy Babiuk's Beatles Gear for the instruments and studio equipment, and others besides – then verified by ear against the recordings. Full bibliography: Sources & thanks.
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