Randoms by Rach

Come Together

Come Together
Album: Abbey Road, 1969
Lead vocalist: John




Lyrics ▼

Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Here come old flat-top, he come groovin' up slowly
He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker, he just do what he please
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola
He say, "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
He bag production, he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Right!
Come, come, come, come, come
He roller-coaster, he got early warnin'
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter
He say, "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-lookin' 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Ugh!
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Oh, come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together

What a cracking song! The rhythm that runs through every line is incredible. It’s impossible to listen to this song and not shake my stuff, lol. (Sorry. Too much information?) Although it does make me really sad to hear John repeatedly saying, “Shoot me.”

This song was banned by the BBC, but not because of the reason you might think. The lyrics, it acknowledged, weren’t especially shocking. But the BBC refused to allow any product brand names to be mentioned, so the reference to Coca Cola got this song banned. Which kind of makes it even more exciting.

I don’t honestly know what this song is about, other than it calls for people to come together, not separate. Which is kind of ironic when you consider it was recorded in the fraught ‘Abbey Road’ sessions where the band were rapidly coming apart. I believe John didn’t even perform on many of the songs on this album. And ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ was a song he hated. Which is unfair, I think. It’s one of those that gets under your skin and has you banging the hammer. But I digress. ‘Come Together’ is a great song. It just is. Ringo cites it as one of his favourites, and if Ringo likes it, it’s fine by me!