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Beatles - Only A Northern Song Song Meanings

Northern songs was John Lennon and Paul McCartney's publishing company. George Harrison was not involved, except for just being a writer (I don't think he liked that...). He was essentially making fun of the company for not sounding good and messing up his songs.

"if you're listening to this song
you may think the chords are going wrong
but they're not;
he just wrote it like that.
When you're listening late at night
you may think the band are not quite right
but they are, they just play it like that
it doesn't really matter what chords I play
what words I say or time of day it is
as it's only a northern song."

ciao!

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-05-27 12:28:55     Rating:

I heard they were 1 track short for the Yellow Sub soundtrack, so George went off and wrote a quick knock off.

He considered it a throw away so gave it the name mocking Northern Songs publishing which he had no contractual obligation.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2007-07-24 08:26:15     Rating:

It sounds to me like this song is about how famous they are and they can do whatever they want (musically) and everyone would still like it.

Submitted by: anonymous
Added: 2008-03-27 22:44:49     Rating:

This song may have also been Harrison mocking the fact he was poorly regarded as a songwriter. Though they were famous enough, they could've gotten away with a random cacophony for nine minutes. In fact, they did...

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