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Red Sails In The Sunset (Live in Germany)The Beatles

Songwriter: Hugh Williams Jimmy Kennedy

[Intro: Paul McCartney]
Yes, I'll take one, please
[?]
A tune called, "Red Sails in the Sunset"
The one you've come for
[...]
"Red Sails in the Sunset"

[Verse 1]
Red sails in the sunset, way out on the sea
Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me
She sailed at the dawning, all day I've been blue
Red sails in the sunset, I'm trusting in you

[Verse 2]
Red sails in the sunset, way out on the sea
Oh, carry my loved one home, yeah, safely to me
Ow!

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Swift wings you must borrow
Make straight for the shore
Well, we marry tomorrow
And she goes sailing no more

[Verse 3]
Red sails in the sunset, way out on the sea
Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Swift wings you must borrow
Make straight for the shore
Well, we marry tomorrow
And she goes sailing away no more

[Verse 4]
Red sails in the sunset, way out on the sea
Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me

[Outro]
Yeah, home safely to me

(Indecipherable)

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.

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