The Beatles- And Your Bird Can Sing
The Beatles- And Your Bird Can Sing
"And Your Bird Can Sing" is a song by The Beatles, released on their 1966 album Revolver in the UK and on Yesterday...and Today in the U.S. The songwriting credit is Lennon/McCartney, though the song was written solely by John Lennon. The working title was "You Don't Get Me". Lennon was later dismissive of the song, referring to it as "another of my throwaways...fancy paper around an empty box".
A number of incidents have been suggested to have been inspirations for the song's cryptic lyrics.
• One popular belief is that the song is a teasing jibe by Lennon at his friend Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, in reference to Jagger's pop star girlfriend ("bird" in British slang) Marianne Faithfull.
• Prior to the Revolver sessions, Lennon had received a singing mechanical caged bird as a gift from his first wife Cynthia, which he took as a horrible metaphor of his unhappy marriage.
• While high on marijuana, McCartney had reportedly
