Beatles songs, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

(John Lennon – John Lennon and Paul McCartney)

Albums in which the song is present

   1965 - Rubber Soul
   1966 - The Beatles 1962-1966 (The Red Album)
   1977 - Love Songs
   1980 - The Beatles' Ballads
   1996 - Anthology 2

JOHN 1972: 'Me.
But Paul helped me on the lyric.'

GEORGE 1980: 'I had bought, earlier, a crummy sitar in London… and played the 'Norwegian Wood' bit.'

JOHN 1980: ''Norwegian Wood' is my song completely.
It was about an affair I was having.
I was very careful and paranoid because I didn't want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household.
I'd always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair… but in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn't tell.
But I can't remember any specific woman it had to do with.'

PAUL 1985: 'It was me who decided in 'Norwegian Wood' that the house should burn down… not that it's any big deal.'

I once had a girl
Or should I say
She once had me

She showed me her room
Isn't it good
Norwegian wood

She asked me to stay
And she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around
And I noticed there wasn't a chair

I sat on a rug
Biding my time
Drinking her wine

We talked until two
And then she said
"It's time for bed"

She told me she worked in the morning
And started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath

And when I awoke
I was alone
This bird had flown

So I lit a fire
Isn't it good
Norwegian wood

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Beatles songs, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Albums in which the song is present