I was dwelling on the immortal words of John Lennon, who said....

[Joe Fields]

"Why don't we do it in the road?"

[ForrestGump]

1. Those are Paul's immortal words

:D

[johnnie]

2. Well, I bet John said it at some time

Like "Hey Paul, am I allowed to listen to your song "Why Don't we do it in the road"?

[ForrestGump]

3. He might have said it Yoko,

too.

[johnnie]

4. True

Here ya go dude:

[Joe Fields]

5. No, those were John's.

[Joe Fields]

7. Those were John's words, Forrest. If it's one thing I can claim to

be an expert on, it's the Beatles.

[MrCoffee]

6. I did not know this...

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr recorded this without the other Beatles. It was one of the first Beatles songs recorded without the whole group present, something they would do more often as their relationships deteriorated.

John Lennon said this was one of Paul's best songs. He may have been joking.

Apparently, McCartney got the idea for this while he was watching a pair of monkeys conducting business: "I was up on a flat roof meditating and I'd see a troupe of monkeys walking along and the male just hopped onto her back and gave her one, as they say in the vernacular. Within two or three seconds he hopped off again, and looked around as if to say, 'it wasn't me,' and she looked around as if there had been some kind of mild disturbance but thought, huh, I must have imagined it. And I thought, bloody hell, that puts it all into a cocked hat, that's how simple the act of procreation is, this bloody monkey just hopping on and off. There is an urge, they do it, and it's done with. It's that simple."

This was a very John Lennon kind of song, John was very upset Paul did not include him in the recording of this.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=161