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Beatles songs, Only A Northern SongOnly A Northern Song(George Harrison)Albums in which the song is present1969 - Yellow Submarine1996 - Anthology 2 1999 - Yellow Submarine Songtrack GEORGE 1980: ''Northern Song' was a joke relating to Liverpool, the Holy City in the North of England. In addition, the song was copyrighted Northern Songs LTD, which I don't own.'GEORGE 1999: 'It was at the point that I realized Dick James had conned me out of the copyrights for my own songs by offering to become my publisher. As an 18 or 19-year-old kid, I thought, 'Great, somebody's gonna publish my songs!' But he never said, 'And incidentally, when you sign this document here, you're assigning me the ownership of the songs,' which is what it is. It was just a blatant theft. By the time I realized what had happened, when they were going public and making all this money out of this catalog, I wrote 'Only A Northern Song' as what we call a 'piss-take,' just to have a joke about it.' If you're listening to this song You may think the chords are going wrong But they're not He just wrote it like thatWhen you're listening late at night You may think the band are not quite right But they are They just play it like thatIt doesn't really matter what chords I play What words I say or time of day it is As it's only a Northern songIt doesn't really matter what clothes I wear Or how I fare or if my hair is brown When it's only a Northern songIf you think the harmony Is a little dark and out of key You're correct There's nobody thereAnd I told you there's no one there |
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