“I Am the Walrus” was recorded on this date in 1967. John received a letter from a student at the high school he had attended. The student explained that his teacher was making the class analyze Beatles’ lyrics. Amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding Beatles’ lyrics, he decided to write a song with the most confusing lyrics he could. John was working on three song ideas at the time. The first was inspired by hearing a police siren and singing “Mis-ter cit-y police-man” to the rhythm and melody of the siren. The second about John sitting in his garden and the third a nonsense lyric about sitting on a corn flake. He combined the three into the song. John said “Let the f#&@!s work that one out.” John borrowed “walrus” from a Lewis Carroll poem called “The Walrus and the Carpenter” and was dismayed when he belatedly learned the walrus was a villain in the poem.
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