Released: May 8, 1970

Featuring: Billy Preston

Songwriter: Lennon-McCartney John Lennon Paul McCartney

Producer: Phil Spector

[Verse 1: Paul McCartney]
I've got a feeling, a feeling deep inside
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's right
I've got a feeling, a feeling I can't hide
Oh no, no, oh no! Oh no
Yeah, yeah! I've got a feeling, yeah!

[Verse 2: Paul McCartney and John Lennon]
Oh please, believe me, I'd hate to miss the train
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah!
And if you leave me I won't be late again
Oh no, oh no! Oh no
Yeah, yeah! I've got a feeling, yeah!
I've got a feeling

[Bridge: Paul McCartney]
All these years I've been wandering around
Wondering how come nobody told me
All that I was looking for was somebody who looked like you!

[Verse 3: Paul McCartney]
I've got a feeling, that keeps me on my toes
Oh yeah, oh yeah (oh yeah!)
I've got a feeling, I think that everybody knows
Oh yeah, oh yeah! Oh yeah
Yeah, yeah! I've got a feeling, yeah!
Yeah

[Verse 4: John Lennon and (Paul McCartney)]
Everybody had a hard year
Everybody had a good time
Everybody had a wet dream
Everybody saw the sunshine
Oh yeah, (oh yeah) oh yeah, oh yeah (yeah)

[Verse 5: John Lennon and (Paul McCartney)]
Everybody had a good year
Everybody let their hair down
Everybody pulled their socks up (yeah)
Everybody put their foot down, oh yeah

[Verse 6: Paul McCartney and (John Lennon)]
Yeah, woo-hoo!
I've got a feeling (Everybody had a good year)
A feeling deep inside (Everybody had a hard time)
Oh yeah (Everybody had a wet dream)
Oh yeah (Everybody saw the sunshine)
I've got a feeling (Everybody had a good year)
A feeling I can't hide (Everybody let their hair down)
Oh no (Everybody pulled their socks up)
Oh no, no (Everybody put their foot down, oh yeah)
Yeah, yeah!

[Outro: Paul McCartney and (John Lennon) ]
I've got a feeling (Oh yeah)
I've got a feeling (Oh yeah)
I've got a feeling
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
(Oh my soul, so hard.)

The Beatles

The Beatles are arguably the most famous, critically-acclaimed, and successful rock band of all time—certainly the preeminent group of the 20th century. They started out as four teenagers playing grimy basement clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg, but they progressed to become world-beating rock stars who are still influential to this day.

John Lennon first formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen in March 1957. A fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined shortly thereafter, eventually inviting his friend George Harrison to audition for the band. After finally impressing John with his guitar skills, George was asked to join—but this juncture would be short-lived as John’s departure to college signaled the other quarrymen to go their separate ways.

By 1960, Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison had re-branded from ‘Johnny & the Moondogs’ to ‘The Silver Beetles’ at the behest of their new bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. The name would eventually evolve into ‘The Silver Beatles’ by July of that year, before settling on ‘The Beatles’ come August—just in time for their trip to Hamburg with new drummer, Pete Best. Though club residencies in Germany would prove fundamental to the group’s progress as a whole, the tour turned out to be a blessing and a curse, following the deportation of a then-seventeen-year-old George Harrison, and the eventual tragic death of Stuart Sutcliffe.