Beatles songs, Only A Northern Song
Only A Northern Song
(George Harrison)Albums in which the song is present
1969 - Yellow Submarine1996 - Anthology 2
1999 - Yellow Submarine Songtrack
GEORGE 1980: ''Northern Song' was a joke relating to Liverpool, the Holy City in the North of England.
In addition, the song was copyrighted Northern Songs LTD, which I don't own.'GEORGE 1999: 'It was at the point that I realized Dick James had conned me out of the copyrights for my own songs by offering to become my publisher.
As an 18 or 19-year-old kid, I thought, 'Great, somebody's gonna publish my songs!' But he never said, 'And incidentally, when you sign this document here, you're assigning me the ownership of the songs,' which is what it is.
It was just a blatant theft.
By the time I realized what had happened, when they were going public and making all this money out of this catalog, I wrote 'Only A Northern Song' as what we call a 'piss-take,' just to have a joke about it.'
In addition, the song was copyrighted Northern Songs LTD, which I don't own.'GEORGE 1999: 'It was at the point that I realized Dick James had conned me out of the copyrights for my own songs by offering to become my publisher.
As an 18 or 19-year-old kid, I thought, 'Great, somebody's gonna publish my songs!' But he never said, 'And incidentally, when you sign this document here, you're assigning me the ownership of the songs,' which is what it is.
It was just a blatant theft.
By the time I realized what had happened, when they were going public and making all this money out of this catalog, I wrote 'Only A Northern Song' as what we call a 'piss-take,' just to have a joke about it.'
If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not
He just wrote it like thatWhen you're listening late at night
You may think the band are not quite right
But they are
They just play it like thatIt doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern songIt doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern songIf you think the harmony
Is a little dark and out of key
You're correct
There's nobody thereAnd I told you there's no one there
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not
He just wrote it like thatWhen you're listening late at night
You may think the band are not quite right
But they are
They just play it like thatIt doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern songIt doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern songIf you think the harmony
Is a little dark and out of key
You're correct
There's nobody thereAnd I told you there's no one there
