The Beatles - Yesterday Official

"Scrambled eggs / Oh, my baby how I love your legs / Not as much as I love scrambled eggs."

One morning in 1964, Paul McCartney woke up in a London attic with a melody so perfect he was certain he’d stolen it. For weeks, he played the tune for friends and music experts, asking, "Is this someone else’s? Did I steal this?". When no one claimed it, he finally accepted it as his own. The Beatles - Yesterday

Before it had those famous melancholic lyrics, the song had a much less poetic working title: . To keep the rhythm while he worked on the melody, Paul sang: "Scrambled eggs / Oh, my baby how I

The joke lasted for months. It wasn't until a long car ride in Portugal in May 1965 that Paul finally found the one-word hook he needed: Yesterday . A Radical Departure for The Beatles When no one claimed it, he finally accepted it as his own