Won't you come out to play?
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Album: The White Album Date: 1968 Lyrics: click
Songfacts: While Mia Farrow inspired such men as Andre Previn,Frank Sinatra and Woody Allen,her sister Prudence left her mark on John Lennon.According to Nancy de Herrera's book,
All You Need Is Love,Prudence metTheBeatles on a spiritual retreat with the Maharishi in India,which she attended with Mia.When Prudence, suffering depression,confined herself to her room, Lennon wrote this hoping to cheer her up.It did.Prudence Farrow wanted to "Teach God quicker than anyone else,"according to John Lennon.She would lock herself in her room trying to meditate for hours and hours.From
A Hard Day's Write,by Steve Turner:"At the end of the demo version of Dear Prudence John continues playing guitar and says:'No one was to know that sooner or later she was to go completely berserk,under the care of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. All the people around were very worried about the girl because she was going insane.So,we sang to her.'Ringo had left the group as the
White Album sessions got very tense,so Paul McCartney played drums.When Ringo came back a short time later,there were flowers on his drum kit welcoming him back.The guitars were overdubbed 6 or 7 times.John Lennon's handwritten lyrics were auctioned off for $19,500 in 1987.Lennon considered this one of his favorites.Siouxsie And The Banshees covered this in 1983. Their version went to #3 in the UK and became their biggest hit.punctuationby porkmarras.