drb (05/12/83)
Be careful what you hear "plain as day" in songs. I read one interview where John Lennon says he said "cranberry sauce" at the end of Strawberry Fields. I also know of someone who recorded himself singing Another One Bites the Dust and played it backwards and, guess what, it sounded kind of like "...smoke marijauna." As far as Paul being dead, I am the Walrus is a good one for thinking you hear things. Everybody knows about "Everybody smoke pot" but does anybody know what the low muffled voice is saying for sure? I always thought it was "Bury my body...Oh, an untimely death...Is he dead? Sit you down, Father. Bless you." But, as I said, it could really be anything or nothing. drb
gumby (05/13/83)
The text at the end of I am the Walrus? It's from the end of King Lear, when England is being invaded and Lear is dying. Wasn't it Edgar who says "Sit you down father, rest you."? I'll try to dig up the text in the next couple of days, but that's what it is. It's a long passage; follow the song with the play in your hands and you will realise it. david