| Paul McCartney – Jet Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| lady suffragette: Nothing to do with suffering, folks. A lady suffragette is someone who believes women should have the right to vote, and by extension, all rights that a man has. The singer is saying that he thought the major believed in a woman's right to run her own life, so why was he opposing her desire to be with him? | |
| Paul McCartney – Junior's Farm Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Ollie Hardy is Oliver Hardy, of the comedian team Laurel and Hardy. A gee-gee is what an English child would call a horse. It is known that Oliver Hardy loved race horses and owned some. So I read that bit as saying that either Hardy is seen in the song as owning or betting on a horse that "jumped a fence" (as in steeplechase racing), or perhaps that he is seen as riding such a horse (not a good idea for someone as overweight as Hardy). "A couple of pence" = the money he hoped to make off that. I couldn't find any specific historical reference out there to some real incident involving Hardy and a horse, but maybe it is there to be found. While the song could be all about drugs, I tend not to see that. some parts of it may point to that as a double entendre, but the bag of cement seems more topical to Watergate, and overall the impression I get is people reacting to trying times and McCartney wanting to get away and lay low from all that. Seen in that context, Hardy's horse-play is a diversion from what he should be doing, acting in films. Subconsciously, maybe McCartney felt he too was spending too much time on money matters regarding the breakup of the Beatles, Apple Records and the rest of it, but maybe that's trying to push interpretation too far. |
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