Hey Jude

Day 2 of the first Hey Jude performance. Notice how John is dressed like the Six Flags man.

"Hey Jude" (1868) was a well-known English ballad, stolen and performed by the Beatles. It is the first radio song to exceed six minutes by 70 hours and one of many singles Paul McCartney recorded while dead.

After the divorce of John and Cynthia Lennon, Paul wanted to reconsole their son, Julian, by offering him the song, but began making money from the single instead. In 1996, Julian Lennon bought the recording notes to this song at an auction for £25,000.

Recording

Jude Law, to whom the song fortunately does not refer, but whose name unfortunately refers to the song.

John Lennon stated that the song came about when Paul McCartney sought to write the shortest song in history. He succeeded with the song "Na", the length of which reportedly totaled less than one second, consisting of the sole lyric "Na". However, the work was lost when Yoko Ono recorded over the original tape for one of her "avant garde" pieces and combined it with the popular ballad "Hey Jude".

Paul recorded it the next day and, forgetting how the song was supposed to end, went around in circles. The recording only ended when producer George Martin ran out of tape and refused to keep on stealing it from the Rolling Stones.

Finally, Paul engaged an orchestra, for (as he claimed at the beginning) playing a few lines of the song, whilst in reality, he wanted them to clap their hands and sing "Na na na na naaa".

“ I’m not going to clap my hands and sing Paul McCartney’s bloody song! ”

- an angry musician said, in spite of the fact that he was getting double rates for his trouble.

Complete lyrics of the song

Hey Jude

Don't make it bad

Take a sad song

And make it butter

Remember to let it into your heart

Then you can start

To make it butter

For well you know that you're a fool

Who is not cool

And makes his world a little colder

Na na na naaana na na naaa na

The lyrics of the song have been characterized as very clever, well-written and thought-provoking by the critics.

Hey Jude

Don't make it worse

You have found her

Now go and do something

Remember to let her under your skin

Then you begin:

"Oh, fucking hell!"

...To make it better / better / better / better / better / BETTER / BETTER / BETTER… AAAAAAAAA!…

So let it out and let it in

Come on! Begin!

You're waiting for someone to do it with

And don't you know that it's just you

Hey Jude, you'll do

The movement you need is inside your body

Na na na na na

na na na na yeah

On second thoughts...

Na, na na na na na na

na na na na, hey Jude

Na, na na na na na na

na na na na, hey Jude

Na, na na na na na na

na na na na, hey Jude

“Excellent, Paul, that'll do fine.”

~ John Lennon

Na, na na na na na na

na na na na, hey Jude

Jude Jude a Judy Judy Judy Judy, ow

“All right, that's enough.”

~ John Lennon

Na, na na na na na na na na na na, Hey Jude (Jude Jude Jude Jude Jude)

Hey Beard...Why do you grow?

“I've got blisters on my fingers.”

~ Ringo Starr on going where no drummer has gone before

“Hey, guys, cab's here…”

~ John Lennon

“Finally!”

~ George Harrison

Na, na na na na na na

na na na na na, Hey Jude

(Hey Jude Hey Jude)

Na, na na na na na na

na na na na, hey Jude

na na na na, Hey Jude

Early drafts

Hey Jewd? How does that one go again??

The Beatles Archives has released several early drafts of the alternate lyrics of "Hey Jude".

Hey, Jude!

Don't fake a bat

Take a sad song

And make some money

For well you know that you're a tool

When wiping drool

And making your chin a little drier

Fixing a hole

At one point, Paul tried a different approach with the original "Hey Jewd".

Hey Jewd

Don't be afraid

You have no foreskin

And it won't be better

Remember to leave your dradle on the table

It'll be a bagel

Tomorrow

The first promotional attempt failed, when Paul McCartney painted the title of the song on one of the Apple Boutique's windows. When he saw the fury of the crowd, he replaced it with " Hey Jude" but the window still got destroyed. McCartney later explained that the song was not at all antisemitic and it was a complete coincidence that "Jude" signified "Jew" in German.

Backmasking

Playing "Hey Jude" backwards yields you a potentially Satanic message:

“ eduJ yeH
aaaaaan an-an-an
aaaaaan an-an-an, aaan, aaaaan, aaaaaaaN ”

According to Paul McCartney, this is gibberish.

Sequel

A popular sequel to "Hey Jude" ("E-pro") was written by Beck. The song makes an honest attempt at tackling Hey Jude's incredible length, but not quite in the same style. Beck also "wanted to capture the beauty of the Nas, but not sound like a total rip-off".

See also

• I Am the Walrus

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