Top repetition devices by writer – Lennon: Recurring line (67), Consecutive line (50), Consecutive verses (35); McCartney: Recurring line (65), Consecutive verses (38), Consecutive line (35); Harrison: Recurring line (18), Consecutive verses (13), Recurring verse (11).
Song count per year
% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)
'Love, love me do' opens every verse
'P.S. I love you' ends each verse
Last night, I said these wo... ×2 (verses)
'Since/when I saw her standin' there'
'Don't you know that it's so?'
'Do you want to know a secret?'
'The world is treating me bad'
'Just call on me and I'll send it along'
'I'll get you in the end'
'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah'
'And I'll send all my lovin' to you'
'I wanna be your man'
'It feels so right'
'Not a second time'
All I got to do ×3 (verses); Is call you on the phone ×2 (verses) + more
'Don't bother me' closes every chorus
'I wanna hold your hand'
'Sie liebt dich, yeah, yeah, yeah'
'Komm, gib mir deine Hand'
'I call your name' opens and closes the song
'Money can't buy me love'
'Oh, you can't do that'
'Things we said today' closes every verse
'But I can't so I'll cry instead' closes each verse
'And I love her' closes each verse
'Any time at all'
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh ×3 (choruses); But I'll be back again ×2 (verses, outro)
'It's been a hard day's night'
If I fell in love with you ×2 (intro, outro)
'I'm happy just to dance with you' closes verses
'Tell me why you cried and why you lied to me'
'I'm in love with her and I feel fine'
'My love don't give me presents'
'no reply' ends each verse
'I'm a loser' opens every chorus
'Tomorrow may rain, so / I'll follow the sun'
'Eight days a week'
'I still love her' answers each bridge couplet
'What can I do?' across every chorus
'What you're doing to me?'
'Every little thing she does'
'She's got a ticket to ride'
'Yes it is' ends every verse
'I'm down' across all choruses
'Help me if you can...' across choruses
'I need you' closes each verse
'Treat me like you did the night before'
'Hey, you've got to hide your love away'
'It's only love and that is all' across choruses
'You're gonna lose that girl'
'Another girl' across every chorus
'Fallin', yes, I am fallin''
'Tell me what you see' across choruses and refrains
'Cause you like me too much and I like you'
'Oh, I believe in yesterday'
'You won't see me' across choruses
'Little girl' ends nearly every line
'In my life' closes each bridge and the outro
'If I needed someone' closes each verse
'Isn't it good, Norwegian wood?' returns in verse 3
'Baby, you can drive my car'
'Think for yourself / 'Cause I won't be there with you'
'What goes on in your mind?'
'I'm looking through you, you're not the same'
'Ah, girl / Girl, girl' across choruses
'Have you heard the word is love?'
'Michelle, ma belle' opens every verse
'We can work it out' across refrains
'It took me so long to find out' across choruses
Each verse's opening phrase repeated as closer
'Paperback writer' closes every verse
'Doctor Robert' tag-line ends nearly every couplet
'All the lonely people' across refrains and chorus
Your day breaks, your mind ... ×2 (verses)
'Of the beginning' repeated through outro
'We all live in a yellow submarine'
'I'm only sleeping' closes every chorus
'Cause I'm the taxman / Yeah, I'm the taxman' refrain
'I want to tell you' opens verses 1 & 3
'Good day sunshine' across every chorus
'I'll be 'round' returns each chorus
'I know what it's like to be dead'
'Got to get you into my life'
'Strawberry Fields forever'
'Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes'
'Lucy in the sky with diamonds'
'With a little help from my friends'
'Where it will go'
'It's getting better all the time'
'Life flows on within you and without you' closes both choruses
'She's leaving home... for so many years'
'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' repeated throughout
'Will you still need me, will you still feed me'
'Lovely Rita, meter maid'
'I'd love to turn you on'
'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'
'Good morning' across chorus, intro, outro
'How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?'
Love is all you need ×27 (choruses, outro); Love, love, love ×6 (intro, bridge) + more
'I am the eggman... I am the walrus'
'Please, don't be long' across every chorus
'Your mother should know' repeats across every chorus and the fade
'But the fool on the hill' opens every chorus
'Roll up for the mystery tour'
'See how they run' closes each bridge
'Don't you know it's gonna be alright?'
'Take a sad song and make it better' returns in verse 4
'You were only waiting...' across verses & outro
'Happiness is a warm gun' across choruses
'Martha my dear' opens and closes both verses
'You are making me crazy / I'm in love, but I'm lazy'
'Cry, baby, cry / Make your mother sigh'
'Good night, sleep tight'
Title question repeats across all three verses
'Does it mean you don't love me any more?'
"If I ain't dead already, woo / Girl, you know the reason why"
After the Savoy truffle ×5 (verses, refrain, outro); But you'll have to have the... ×4 (verses, refrain)
Do-do-do-do ×3 (choruses); Mother Nature's son ×2 (verses) + more
'So I sing a song of love, Julia'
'They say it's your birthday'
Helter-skelter ×6 (choruses); When I get to the bottom, I... ×2 (intro, bridge) + more
'Back in the U.S.S.R.'
'Honey pie' constitutes nearly the entire lyric
'Sexy Sadie' across all sections
'Looking through a glass onion'
'Dear Prudence' opens every verse
'Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah'
'Don't you know it's gonna be all right'
'Hey, Bungalow Bill / What did you kill'
'I'd give you everything I've got'
'While my guitar gently weeps'
'Hold that line!', 'Block that kick!', 'Number nine'
Do-do-do, dooroo-do-do ×9 (bridge, outro); Do-dooroo-do-do, do-do ×8 (bridge, outro) + more
'Everybody's got something to hide'
Title phrase opens each verse
'You can talk to me'
'It's only a Northern song'
'It's all too much' across choruses
'I love you'; 'All together now'
'Get back to where you once belonged'
'Don't let me down' across choruses
'Baby, I'm in love with you'
'Christ, you know it ain't easy'
'Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl'
'Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head'
'I'd like to be under the sea'
'I'll never do you no harm'
'I don't want to leave her now'
'Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry'
'Nowhere to go' across verse 3
'Didn't anybody tell her?' across choruses
'Here come the sun king'
Chorus hook returns after verse
'Here comes the sun' across choruses
'Because the...' opens every verse
Shoot me ×16 (intro, interludes); Come together, yeah ×9 (outro)
'Nothing's gonna change my world'
'You know my name'
'Mother Mary comes to me'
'I've got a feeling' across verses
'Like a rolling stone' x3
'I told you so' closes each verse
'Said she's traveling on the one after 909'
'We're on our way home'
'Lead me to your door'
'All through the...'
'Nothing's gonna change my world'
'Free as a bird' across verses
'Seems that all I really was doing / Was waiting for...'
'It's all because of you'
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Revolution in the Head
Ian MacDonald
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The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
Alan Aldridge
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