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(c)1964 Words & Music John Lennon - Paul McCartney
Track 8 on album "Beatles For Sale" (1964)
Arr. stagwolf
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Ooh, I need your love, babe, guess you know it´s true, hope you need my love, babe, just like I need you
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me, ain´t got nothin´ but love, babe, eight days a week.
Love you ev´ry day, girl, always on my mind, one thing I can say, girl, love you all the time
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me, ain´t got nothin´ but love, girl, eight days a week.
Eight days a week I love you, eight days a week is not enough to show I care..
Ooh, I need your love, babe, guess you know it´s true, hope you need my love, babe, just like I need you
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me, ain´t got nothin´ but love, babe, eight days a week.
Eight days a week I love you, eight days a week is not enough to show I care..
Love you ev´ry day, girl, always on my mind, one thing I can say, girl, love you all the time
Hold me, love me, hold me, love me, ain´t got nothin´ but love, babe, eight days a week
Eight days a week, eight days a week.
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Capo II, key of A
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The best song on Beatles For Sale. Having said that, I have a soft spot for I Don't Want To Spoil The Party, which is actually a sort of country song.
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There are two possibilities on where the title came from. In Bob Spitz' The Beatles:
The Biography, Paul McCartney claims that he asked his chauffeur (while being driven to John's house in Weybridge) if he was busy, and got the answer "Busy? I've been working eight days a week."
In a later interview, Paul says that it was Ringo who coined the phrase: "He said it as though he were an overworked chauffeur.
When we heard it we said 'Really?' Bing! Got it"! John Lennon also claimed it was one of Ringo's malapropisms.
McCartney wrote most of this song, while Lennon added the middle eight and a few other lines.
Usually John and Paul sang lead on songs that they wrote or principally wrote.
This is an exception to that, with Paul writing the song but John singing lead.
John Lennon claimed not to like the song. In his 1980 interview with Playboy magazine, he stated, "'Eight Days A Week' was never a good song.
We struggled to record it and struggled to make it into a song. It was [Paul's] initial effort, but I think we both worked on it. I'm not sure. But, it was lousy anyway."
Artists to cover this song include The Dandy Warhols, Joan Jett, Lorrie Morgan, The Persuasions, Billy Preston and Procol Harum.