Just another catchy blues-rocker from the Beatles, right? Nope nope nopenopenope.
“Get Back” went through numerous iterations. (Many versions are publicly available, with the single version and the album version being the most well known.) In one of its earlier forms, “Get Back” was a brash politic...
[Intro]
Don't dig no Pakistanis taking all the people's jobs
[Chorus]
Oh, get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
[Verse 1]
Oh ne nu ne nu was a Puerto Rican born in na na na na na
All the folks around said "Boy, he a Mohican living in the U.S.A"
[Chorus]
Get back, oh get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Wooo!
[Guitar Solo & Vocalizing]
[Chorus]
Get back, oh get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
[Verse 2]
Sidi of the west was a Pakistani living in the mmmm..
All the folks around don't dig no Pakistanis taking all the people's jobs so
[Chorus]
Get back, oh get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged!
Wooo!
[Guitar Solo & Vocalizing]
[Chorus]
Get Back (No Pakistanis Version) was written by Lennon-McCartney & Paul McCartney.
The-beatles released Get Back (No Pakistanis Version) on Mon Jan 01 1968.
When we were doing Let It Be, there were a couple of verses to “Get Back” which were actually not racist at all — they were anti-racist. There were a lot of stories in the newspapers then about Pakistanis crowding out flats — you know, living 16 to a room or whatever. So in one of the verses of “Get...