famous beagle
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I feel as though I'm taking crazy pills here.
In the verse of this song, Paul sings "Do you don't you want me to love you. Coming down fast but I'm miles above you..." This is all over an E chord. Then this is where it gets weird. I remember it changing to a G chord for "Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer," (then A chord) "You may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer."
But when I listen now to the song on Amazon music or my old White Album cassette (there's no year shown on it so I don't know when the cassette was made---of course I know the album is from 1968, but I don't know when this cassette was printed), there's an extra measure of an E chord there, and he sings "Tell me, tell me ... come on" before singing "tell me the answer" over the G chord.
What's strange is that all the cover versions (Motley Crue, U2, Oasis, etc.) use the form I remember.
AND, there's this super cool video of Paul in the studio playing it acoustically. At around 0:40, you hear him run through the verse, and he plays it the way I remember too.
The Beatles - Helter Skelter (Studio Version) (11.06.1968) - YouTube
So what the hell gives? What do y'all remember? What's going on here?
Is the version that's around now a remastered version ... or ...what?
In the verse of this song, Paul sings "Do you don't you want me to love you. Coming down fast but I'm miles above you..." This is all over an E chord. Then this is where it gets weird. I remember it changing to a G chord for "Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer," (then A chord) "You may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer."
But when I listen now to the song on Amazon music or my old White Album cassette (there's no year shown on it so I don't know when the cassette was made---of course I know the album is from 1968, but I don't know when this cassette was printed), there's an extra measure of an E chord there, and he sings "Tell me, tell me ... come on" before singing "tell me the answer" over the G chord.
What's strange is that all the cover versions (Motley Crue, U2, Oasis, etc.) use the form I remember.
AND, there's this super cool video of Paul in the studio playing it acoustically. At around 0:40, you hear him run through the verse, and he plays it the way I remember too.
The Beatles - Helter Skelter (Studio Version) (11.06.1968) - YouTube
So what the hell gives? What do y'all remember? What's going on here?
Is the version that's around now a remastered version ... or ...what?