Norwegian Wood For The Ages: 'Mummified' Pine Trees Found

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) via ScienceDaily.com ^ | Oct. 18, 2009 | staff reporter

[Dysart]

Dang it. My leaf. Double pun ungood.

[JoeProBono]

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me... She showed me her room, isn't it good Norwegian wood?

She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere, So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair.

I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine, We talked until two and then she said: "It's time for bed"

She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh. I told her I didn't, and crawled off to sleep in the bath

And when I awoke, I was alone, this bird had flown So I lit a fire, isn't it good Norwegian wood.

The Beatles - Norwegian Wood

[Daffynition]

Pick up some chocolate ice cream while you're out, K?

[Daffynition]

From wiki:

[edit] Lyrics

McCartney said the final line of the song indicates that the singer burned the home of the girl. As he explained:

Peter Asher [brother of McCartney's then-girlfriend Jane Asher] had just done his room out in wood, and a lot of people were decorating their places in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine, really, just cheap pine. But it's not as good a title, is it, "Cheap Pine"? It was a little parody, really, on those kind of girls who, when you'd get back to their flat, there would be a lot of Norwegian wood. It was completely imaginary from my point of view, but not from John's. It was based on an affair he had. She made him sleep in the bath and then, finally, in the last verse, I had this idea to set the Norwegian wood on fire as a revenge. She led him on and said, "You'd better sleep in the bath." And in our world, that meant the guy having some sort of revenge, so it meant burning the place down....^{[citation needed]}

After a studio recording of the song (George Martin can be heard saying 'Take four' at the beginning), Lennon can clearly be heard saying 'I showed her!'. This would support McCartney's explanation of the lyrics being revenge-based. This can be heard on 'Beatles Artifacts Disc 2: Ticket to Ride'.

This exchange took place in a press conference in Los Angeles on 24 August 1966:

Reporter: I'd like to direct this question to messrs. Lennon and McCartney. In a recent article, Time magazine put down pop music. And they referred to "Day Tripper" as being about a prostitute...

Paul: Oh yeah.

Reporter: ...and "Norwegian Wood" as being about a lesbian.

Paul: Oh yeah.

Reporter: I just wanted to know what your intent was when you wrote it, and what your feeling is about the Time magazine criticism of the music that is being written today.

Paul: We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that's all.^[3]

[Daffynition]

[Dysart]

Hey, you took my leaf!

[blam]

That's a Triffid for sure.

[Pelham]

She showed me her room, isn’t it good Norwegian wood?

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]