Paul Mc Cartney Obama Baby You Can Drive My Car

Song facts

From Wikipedia:

"Bulldoze My Car" is a vocal by the Beatles, written primarily by Paul McCartney, with lyrical contributions from John Lennon. It was first released on the British version of the band's 1965 anthology Condom Soul; information technology besides appeared in North America on the Yesterday and Today collection. The upbeat, lighthearted "Bulldoze My Car" was used as the opening runway for both albums. Over the years the song has been covered past many artists.

Lyrics

The song'south male narrator is told by a woman that she is going to be a famous movie star, and she offers him the opportunity to exist her chauffeur, adding: "and maybe I'll love you". When he objects that his "prospects [are] good", she retorts that "working for peanuts is all very fine but I tin show you a amend time." When he agrees to her proposal, she admits that she does non have a auto, "but [she'south] found a driver and that's a showtime." According to McCartney, "'Drive my car' was an old blues euphemism for sex". This expression was more common in the pre-automatic shift era of automobiles.

Composition

When McCartney arrived at Lennon's Weybridge dwelling for a writing session, he had the melody in his caput, but "The lyrics were disastrous, and I knew information technology." The chorus began, "Yous tin can buy me diamond rings", a cliché they had used twice before, in "Tin't Purchase Me Love" and "I Feel Fine" (as well as in the discarded "If You've Got Trouble"). Lennon dismissed the lyrics as "crap" and "too soft". They decided to rewrite the lyrics and afterward some difficulty – McCartney said it was "i of the stickiest" writing sessions – they settled on the "drive my motorcar" theme (which Bob Spitz credits to Lennon) and the balance of the lyrics flowed easily from that.

Information technology has been suggested that the vocal also refers to the human relationship between Cilla Black and her then boyfriend Bobby Willis (whom she later married). Cilla was both a friend of the Beatles and a protegée of Brian Epstein. As the TV mini-series "Cilla" reveals, Bobby was also offered a recording contract by Epstein, but Cilla objected, maxim she was the "star" and Bobby was to be the route managing director who would "Drive My Car".

Recording

"Drive My Car" was recorded on 13 Oct 1965 during the Beatles' first recording session to extend past midnight. McCartney worked closely with George Harrison on the basic rhythm track, the pair playing, in writer Ian MacDonald'due south description, "similar riffing lines on bass and depression guitar", respectively, as per Harrison's suggestion. Harrison had been listening to Otis Redding'due south "Respect" at the fourth dimension and, as a result of this influence, "Drive My Motorcar" contains more bottom end than previous Beatles recordings, mimicking the bass-heavy sound in Redding 's Memphis studio.

McCartney sang the main vocal part, giving information technology an energetic push that announcer Richie Unterberger calls "a commanding … hard rock vocal". The vocal rides to a higher place a simple two-chord funk riff in the verse, and a much more complex chorus containing piano-driven jazz-style key modulations. McCartney overdubbed both the piano office and the lead guitar solo.

Paul McCartney in "Many Years From Now", past Barry Miles:

The lyrics were disastrous and I knew it… This is 1 of the songs where John and I came nearest to having a dry out session. The lyrics I brought in were something to do with golden rings, which is ever fatal. 'Rings' is fatal anyway, 'rings' always rhymes with 'things' and I knew it was a bad idea. I came in and I said, 'These aren't practiced lyrics simply it'southward a good tune.' The melody was nice, the tune was there, I'd washed the melody. Well, we tried, and John couldn't recollect of anything, and nosotros tried and eventually it was, 'Oh permit's leave it, let'southward get off this one.' 'No, no. We can exercise it, nosotros can exercise it.' So nosotros had a intermission, maybe had a cigarette or a cup of tea, then we came dorsum to information technology, and somehow it became 'drive my machine' instead of 'gold-en rings', and then it was wonderful because this dainty tongue-in-cheek idea came and suddenly there was a daughter there, the heroine of the story, and the story developed and had a footling sting in the tail like Norwegian Forest had, which was 'I really haven't got a automobile, but when I get ane you lot'll be a terrific chauffeur.' […]

'Drive my motorcar' was an old dejection euphemism for sex, and so in the end all is revealed. Blackness humour crept in and saved the day. Information technology wrote itself and then. I detect that very often, once you get the practiced thought, things write themselves.

Paul McCartney in "Conversations With McCartney", by Paul Du Noyer:

The only Beatle song I can remember nosotros got stuck on – though it still only took an afternoon – it's merely we got stuck on this thing, 'Baby I can give you aureate rings, I can give you annihilation, Baby I love you.' It was 'Drive My Car'. And I hated this, 'I tin give you gilded rings,' sounds similar mantle rings or something. Nosotros just couldn't go past information technology.

And finally nosotros just got manic, 'Oh, let'south forget it, let's just do the next flake.' We moved off the cake and somehow I thought, 'Drive my auto, bang-up, that's great!' And that was the whole idea and so. Oh, yous could be my chauffeur! As if you lot were talking to a girl, or Zsa Zsa Gabor was talking to a toy boy. And and then of course, the piddling twist we were into at that period, similar in 'Norwegian Wood' he burns her place down afterwards having talked about how wonderful all the forest is. He burns it because she wouldn't let him take it. That was the lilliputian twist of that. And 'Drive My Car' is that he hasn't actually got a automobile. One of these days I'll accept one and then y'all can bulldoze it.

So that was all correct. Once nosotros got that idea, drive my automobile, got it away from golden rings it went actually quick, and then the 'beep-beep beep-beep yes!' Information technology all came in. Once yous have a proficient thought it'due south easy to run with it. Normally I don't accept to struggle too much.

From The Usenet Guide to Beatles Recording Variations:

• [a] mono 25 Oct 1965.
  U.k.: Parlophone PMC 1267 Condom Soul 1965.
  CD: EP Box gear up 1991.
• [b] stereo 26 Oct 1965.
  Britain: Parlophone PCS 3075 Prophylactic Soul 1965, Apple PCSP 717 The Beatles 1962-1966 1973.
  US: Capitol ST 2553 Yesterday & Today 1966, Apple SKBO-3403 The Beatles 1962-1966 1973.
• [b1] mono made from [b], by Capitol.
  United states: Capitol T 2553 Yesterday & Today 1966.
• [c] stereo 1987.
  CD: EMI CDP vii 46440 2 Rubber Soul 1987, EMI CDP seven 97036 two The Beatles 1962-1966 1993.

The lead vocal is far correct in stereo [b], right center on [c].

The cowbell track in stereo [b] is heard during each poesy except in the last line, betwixt lines of the refrain, in the instrumental break, and in the fadeout. In mono [a] it is much softer and seems to be missing completely during the fadeout. Capitol mono T 2553 is non mix [a] and must have been combined from stereo [b]. In the CD mix [c] the vocal is moved to correct eye, leaving the cowbell and guitar rail far correct, and the cowbell is heard continuously through the refrain, evidence that the track is being faded during vocal lines in [b].

Reports of a different mono mix with the pianoforte much softer, on United kingdom Parlophone GEP 8952 Nowhere Man (EP) 1965 (come across the book Every Little Thing for example), are mistaken, but perhaps "piano" is a transcription error for "cowbell" since the EP with [a] does differ from Capitol mono with [b1].

Last updated on Oct 29, 2016

The volume "The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present", published in 2021, covers Paul McCartney'southward early Liverpool days, the Beatles, Wings, and solo careers, by pairing the lyrics of 154 of his songs with first-person commentaries of the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now.

"Drive My Car" is i of the 154 songs covered.

Lyrics

Asked a girl what she wanted to be
She said baby, "Tin can't you see
I wanna be famous, a star on the screen
But you can do something in between"

Baby you tin can drive my auto
Yes I'm gonna be a star
Babe y'all can drive my car
And peradventure I love you

I told a girl that my prospects were good
And she said babe, "It's understood
Working for peanuts is all very fine
But I can prove yous a better fourth dimension"

Babe you tin drive my machine
Yes I'g gonna be a star
Babe you tin can drive my automobile
And maybe I dear you lot
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah

Baby you lot can drive my car
Yeah I'k gonna exist a star
Infant you tin can bulldoze my car
And possibly I love y'all

I told that girl I can start right away
And she said, "Mind baby I got something to say
I got no motorcar and it's breaking my center
But I've found a driver and that's a beginning"

Baby you can drive my motorcar
Yes I'k gonna be a star
Baby y'all tin can drive my machine
And perchance I dear you
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah
Beep beep'grand beep beep yes
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah

Officially appears on

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Yesterday and Today (Mono)

Official album • Released in 1966

2:31 • Studio version • B1 • Mono • Mono made from [B] past Capitol

Session Recording:

Oct 13, 1965

Studio :

EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

Session Mixing:

Oct 26, 1965

Studio :

EMI Studios, Studio 2, Abbey Road

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Nowhere Human being

EP • Released in 1966

two:31 • Studio version • A • Mono

Session Recording:

Oct 13, 1965

Studio :

EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

Session Mixing:

Oct 25, 1965

Studio :

EMI Studios, Studio 2, Abbey Route

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Bootlegs

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Videos

Alive performances

"Drive My Motorcar" has been played in 214 concerts and 61 soundchecks.

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2005	0	31
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2007	0	iv
2008	0	4
2009	1	22
2010	iii	18
2011	0	xvi
2012	i	11
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2014	14	0
2015	8	3
2016	12	0
2017	11	eight
2018	iii	4
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Latest concerts where Drive My Car has been played

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Source: https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/drive-my-car/

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