Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Lennon/McCartney

Lyrics:
She's not a girl who misses much
Do do do do do do
oh, yeah
She's well acquainted with
the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pain
The man in the crowd with the
multicolored mirror on his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his
hands are busy working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which
he ate and donated to the National Trust

I need a fix cause I'm going down
Down to the bits that I left uptown
I need a fix cause I'm going down
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun

Happiness is a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun mama
When I hold you in my arms
and I feel my finger on you trigger
I know nobody can do no harm
Because Happiness is a warm gun mama
Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is
Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun
Ah, don't you know that
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Lead Singer: John

Recording: 9/23/68, 9/24/68, 9/25/68
Mixing: 9/25/68, 9/26/68, 10/15/68
Length: 2:42
Take: 65

What Goes On? Anomalies

0:43
Chewing/mouth noise
0:57
The mixers brought up a track too quickly. Originally, John sang the "I need a fix" line twice, but the first was supposed to be left out in the release. The end of the first "down," though, ended up on the master
1:34
High pitched titter from the "female" backing voices. Caught unawares by an early drop in? * NEW * This has been attributed to John saying "shoot" or "sh*t" ...
1:50 "When I Hold you" * NEW *
The tempo changes into something like 6/8 here, but Ringo continues in 4/4. Not sure how this happened. Two possibilities -- they were doing something clever with arrangements by overlaying 2 rhythms. Or, at the time the drum were recorded they intended it to be 4/4 and changed their minds later. It's clever. (There's a Queen song "The Miracle" where the song ends and goes into a guitar/bass/drums solo fade out, and a piece fades in over this at a different tempo and knits at key points (the start and end) so that it transits to a slower tempo without you really noticing.)
In the light of the "Mother superior" bit, which has an odd beat pattern of 3 6 3 7 3 6 3 7 3 6 3 7 beats, it may be deliberate andclever.
2:21
Print-through of the word "Gun".
Note: I did not write or compile these anomalies. Please don't email me with new anomalies and please read the WGO Info page.

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