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Originally posted by Johnny Stew
Actually, it's not as weird a title as a lot of folks think it is. When Paul McCartney was first writing the beautiful "Yesterday," he was calling the tune, "Scrambled Eggs!"
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Sometimes the working title of a song has nothing to do with the lyrics at all....it's just a way to remember the tune. I have so many demos of my own that have no names...it's kind of hard to remember a piece of music as "track 12" or "demo #43". I have a piece of music that sounds country but there's a punkish quality to it also. Hence, i named it "country punk." Now, the tune comes to me instantly when i think of that name.
Anyway.....maybe Paul wrote "yesterday" over breakfast....or, maybe there was an overabundance of butter cookies when "keep me there" ("by the butter cookies, cause i got the munchies big time!") was written....