Music · Music genre

Folk

Acoustic-led, melodically direct, with structural and thematic influences from traditional folk music

songs

Analysis

Every song on this page, across all of them: genre and text influence.

By Year

Song count per year

By Songwriter

% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)

By Era

Early4 · 11%

Mid-period16 · 44%

Late16 · 44%

By Album

The Beatles (The White Album)10

Book

The Beatles: Complete Scores

Hal Leonard

Book

All the Songs

Margotin & Guesdon

Sheet music

Musicnotes – Beatles Piano/Vocal/Guitar

Musicnotes

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Songs(38 of 39)

Year

Album

Writer

Lead vocal(s)

#	Title	Year	Album	Lead Vocal(s)	Role	Notes
1	Things We Said Today	1964	A Hard Day's Night	Paul	Genre	-
2	And I Love Her	1964	A Hard Day's Night	Paul	Genre	Acoustic-led, gentle texture
3	I'm a Loser	1964	Beatles For Sale	John	Genre	-
4	I'll Follow the Sun	1964	Beatles For Sale	Paul	Genre	Acoustic folk-pop arrangement
5	Ticket to Ride	1965	Help!	John	Genre	-
6	Help!	1965	Help!	John	Genre	-
7	It's Only Love	1965	Help!	John	Genre	-

8	I Need You	1965	Help!	George	Genre	-
9	You've Got to Hide Your Love Away	1965	Help!	John	Genre	-
10	I've Just Seen a Face	1965	Help!	Paul	Genre	-
11	Tell Me What You See	1965	Help!	John, Paul	Genre	-
12	Girl	1965	Rubber Soul	John	Genre	-
13	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	1965	Rubber Soul	John	Genre	-
14	Run for Your Life	1965	Rubber Soul	John	Genre	-
15	Wait	1965	Rubber Soul	John, Paul	Genre	-
16	In My Life	1965	Rubber Soul	John	Genre	-
17	If I Needed Someone	1965	Rubber Soul	George	Genre	-
18	Nowhere Man	1965	Rubber Soul	John	Genre	-
19	I'm Looking Through You	1965	Rubber Soul	Paul	Genre	-
20	We Can Work It Out	1965	Past Masters	Paul, John	Genre	-
21	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	1965	Rubber Soul	John	Text influence	Acoustic-led, fingerpicked, narrative lyric - folk idiom
22	Julia	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	John	Genre	-
23	The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	John	Genre	-
24	Piggies	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	George	Genre	-
25	Long, Long, Long	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	George	Genre	-
26	I Will	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	Paul	Genre	-
27	Cry Baby Cry	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	John	Genre	-
28	Mother Nature's Son	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	Paul	Genre	-
29	Rocky Raccoon	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	Paul	Genre	-
30	Dear Prudence	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	John	Genre	-
31	Blackbird	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	Paul	Genre	-
32	Mother Nature's Son	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	Paul	Text influence	'hymn-like folksong'
33	Here Comes the Sun	1969	Abbey Road	George	Genre	-
34	Across the Universe (Wildlife version)	1969	Past Masters	John	Genre	-
35	Two of Us	1970	Let It Be	Paul, John	Genre	-
36	I Me Mine	1970	Let It Be	George	Genre	-
37	Across the Universe	1970	Let It Be	John	Genre	-
38	For You Blue	1970	Let It Be	George	Genre	Acoustic folk-blues texture