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Day TripperThe Beatles

Released: December 3, 1965

Songwriter: Lennon-McCartney John Lennon Paul McCartney

Producer: George Martin

[Verse 1: Paul McCartney & John Lennon]
Got a good reason
For taking the easy way out
Got a good reason
For taking the easy way out, now

[Chorus: Paul McCartney & John Lennon]
She was a day tripper
A one way ticket, yeah
It took me so long
To find out, and I found out

[Verse 2: Paul McCartney & John Lennon]
She's a big teaser
She took me half the way there
She's a big teaser
She took me half the way there, now

[Chorus: Paul McCartney & John Lennon]
She was a day tripper
A one way ticket, yeah
It took me so long
To find out, and I found out

[Guitar Solo: John Lennon]

[Verse 3: Paul McCartney & John Lennon]
Tried to please her
She only played one night stands
Tried to please her
She only played one night stands, now

[Chorus: Paul McCartney & John Lennon]
She was a day tripper
A Sunday driver, yeah
It took me so long
To find out, and I found out

[Outro: Paul McCartney & John Lennon]
Day tripper
Day tripper, yeah
Day tripper
Day tripper, yeah
Day tripper

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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