Posted on 04/15/2016 1:41:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It occurred to me the other day after I read that Ringo Starr is refusing to play a show in North Carolina because he wants to make himself relevant is feeling put out by the so-called bathroom bill banning men from women’s rooms: he must really regret having played drums on “Get Back.”
I was surprised this morning to see that no has pointed this out yet.
For those of you who don’t know the lyrics to The Beatles’s 17th American number-one single by heart, here are the last two verses:
Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the girls around her say she’s got it coming
But she gets it while she can
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back, Loretta
Your mother’s waiting for you
Wearing her high-heel shoes
And her low-neck sweater
Get back, Loretta,
Get back, get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.
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Just another brainless celebrity lemming. Ignore him.
I am sure no pervert will take advantage of a law that allows him access to the woman’s bathroom. </S>
He played drums because he no other social redeeming qualities or skills to offer.
Ringo & Springsteen made a commitment to do the gig in NC.
People spent their hard earned money to buy tickets.
You DO THE GIG. If you have some problem with the policy that doesn’t mean you don’t honor your commitment. If you want to rant about it on stage go ahead, but don’t be a coward and not play just because you don’t like it.
Mr. Starkey is worth a cool 300 million. He’ll get over it.
I thought the lyrics were meant to be an insult directed toward Yoko Ono.
Celebrities rant on stage for all sorts of causes to an audience and then play.
I think the celebrities are doing this as convenient virtue signalling, to look good, not actually out of conviction.
I always thought the first line to “Get back” was, “Jojo was a man who thought he was a woman”.
It was 1970 & the Beatles were off the deep end & Yoko Ono was doing a Svengali on Lennon. I had long since quit listening.
Ringo Starr was and still is a worthless drummer who added nothing to the Beatles phenomenon but yet he's still on tour with a band that is just as worthless as him......"Ringo Starr's All star Band"..........The guy is fugugly too..........Go figure.
Why does society have to change everything to accommodate the perverted predilections of this small minority of people, who should just be told that the rules of society are set and they should use their own bathrooms and not those of the opposite sex.
Confused about your sex? Use the toilet at home before venturing out into the real world, please.
Well you should see Polythene Pam
She’s so good looking but she looks like a man
Yeah you should see her in drag dressed in her polythene bag...
Get a dose of her in jackboot and kilt
She’s killer diller when she’s dressed to the hilt
She’s the kind of the girl that makes the News Of The World
—Lennon/McCartney
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola
—Davies
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She says, “Hey, babe,
Take a walk on the wild side.”
—Reed
I’m just a sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania
—Richard O’Brien
Didn’t John Lennon say Ringo was the second best drummer in the Beatles. Paul drummed on a few of their songs, namely “The Ballad of John and Yoko.”
If celebrities like Springsteen and Starr stick to not performing in states that implement policies they don’t like, they’re only hurting their own income. Same goes for companies that choose not to do business in states that don’t kow-tow to their corporate whims. And that’s something I can live with.
The song seemed mild (if not twisted) compared to Lou Reed.
Now, we have people trying to make this stuff into law. With smiling liberals on “news” stations telling you it’s all good.
Elections have consequences.
BTW, I’m not excusing either song. Ringo, Springsteen and Adams are limousine liberals. Like Leo DiCaprio.
Their ultimate "safe space" would be invaded, see how they like that!
Somebody posted a cartoon of “Mommy! That’s not a woman!”.
I didn’t capture the link. Maybe somebody else did.
No idea what Ringo’s sexual thing is
I do know that I have met him several times (which for a kid from his era was huge), and he helped my son in the music industry, so I must disclose my conflict of interest (I do consider him a friendly person, but he probably wouldn’t remember who I am, except to say I am “so and so’s dad”, which is irrelevant to him)
In any event, I never really thought about “get back” as a song about sexuality.
I thought it more about when the shit hit’s the fan, get back to where you once belonged (your family and friends back home). That song carried many of us. Get back was timely, and had meaning beyond whatever someone wants to make of it now. When all hell was breaking loose, you just had to “get back”.
That’s how I read into it when I was far far away in a land of rice paddies. I didn’t care about shemales at that time, just wasn’t on my mind.
Lola? Different story. But I still loved the song. Different era, different times, different mind-set.
Ringo’s not going to play in North Carolina??? Oh no! Did Country Joe and the Fish cancel too? Strawberry Alarm Clock? Jefferson Airplane? How are we ever going to have another Sixties concert????
If my memory serves me right, Lennon’s “Sexy Sadie” was the maharishi mahesh yogi. Is this trans stuff like transcendental meditation, or sumpin’?
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