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Jet! Jet! Jet!
I can almost remember their funny faces
That time you told 'em that you were going to be marrying soon
And Jet,
I thought the only lonely place was on the moon
Jet! Oo Jet! Oo

Jet! Was your father as bold as a sergeant major?
Well how come he told you that you were hardly old enough yet?
And Jet,
I thought the major was a lady suffragette
Jet! Oo Jet! Oo

Ah, mater, want Jet to always love me?
Ah, mater, want Jet to always love me?
Ah, mater, much later

Jet! With the wind in your hair of a thousand laces
Climb on the back and we'll go for a ride in the sky
And Jet,
I thought that the major was a little lady suffragette
Jet! Oo Jet! Oo

And Jet,
You know I thought you was a little lady suffragette
Jet! Oo
A little lady. My little lady, yes
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Jet invited her boyfriend to some kind of family social. She told them that she would be marrying soon. They were shocked to hear this because they thought she was saying that she was pregnant. Her father spoke up as bold as a sergeant major and told her that she was too young. He didn't approve of this boy. He told her that she was never allowed to see him again. They were in love so the world was a lonelier place than the moon while they were apart. This boy would go to Mass and pray to Mother Mary that Jet would always love him and that one day they would get married. So they eloped. They rode off with her on the back of his motorcycle and with her white laced wedding vale blowing in the wind. This may sound very disrespectful because Linda is no longer with us, the reason why the girl in this story was named Jet is because Paul use to have a dog named jet. This may be a rebuff to a very nasty joke going around at the time. What do you call a dog with wings? Linda McCartney.

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really? Nothing here about meaning of suffragettes and mater being mom? Even Bowie could have picked up on the suffragettes!

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The song referenced David Bowie. I thought the major (Major Tom) was a little lady suffergent (suffergent city).

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In a 2017 interview on Australian radio station Triple J for the segment Take 5, McCartney said that the song was actually about his experience meeting Linda's father:

There’s no telling where you'll get ideas from and we happened to name this little black puppy Jet. Again I was noodling around, looking for an idea and thought that's a good word 'Jet'. So, I wrote the song about that. Not about the puppy, just using the name. And now it's transformed into a sort of girl. It was kind of – a little bit about the experiences I'd had in marrying Linda. Her dad was a little old fashioned and I thought I was a little bit intimidated, as a lot of young guys can be meeting the father figure. And if the dad's really easy-going, it makes it easy. It wasn't bad but I was a bit intimidated, probably my fault as much as his. Anyway, the song starts to be about the sergeant major and it was basically my experience, roughly translated. I never do a song with the actual words that actually happen, because then that's like a news story. Oh Linda, I was going to see your dad and he was intimidating. A bit boring. So, I mask it and mould it into a song, something you can sing reasonably
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wow this song is so good it is saddening that there are no comments for it D:

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I had heard that this song is about Paul's beloved dog he had as a child

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Jet invited her boyfriend to some kind of family social. She told them that she would be marrying soon. They were shocked to hear this because they thought she was saying that she was pregnant. Her father spoke up as bold as a sergeant major and told her that she was too young. He didn't approve of this boy. He told her that she was never allowed to see him again. They were in love so the world was a lonelier place than the moon while they were apart. This boy would go to Mass and pray to Mother Mary that Jet would always love him and that one day they would get married. So they eloped. They rode off with her on the back of his motorcycle and with her white laced wedding vale blowing in the wind. This may sound very disrespectful because Linda is no longer with us, the reason why the girl in this story was named Jet is because Paul use to have a dog named jet. This may be a rebuff to a very nasty joke going around at the time. What do you call a dog with wings? Linda McCartney.

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Jet refers to Paul's childrens horse, not his dog.

 
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