The Word
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SKU: A0.1421929
By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,Pop,Wedding. 13 pages. RayThompsonMusic #1003267. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1421929)."The Word" is a song by English rock band The Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded with Lennon on lead vocals. It was first released on their 1965 album Rubber Soul.
Musically, the song is founded on a driving funk beat, with few chord changes and a simple melody in the key of D major.(The refrain is a 12 bar blues in D. The main chord is D7(♯9), also used in "Drive My Car" and "Taxman".)
John Lennon had felt during his youth that "love had been the answer", and had written "The Word" as his "first expression" of the concept. He had felt that love was an "underlying theme of the universe", and that love was fundamental in many things, which had inspired the lyric "In the good and bad books that I have read". The song is credited to Lennon-McCartney, however Lennon had stated that it was "mainly mine".It had marked the first time the Beatles had written a song about love as a concept, which would become important in the band's later work.
Paul McCartney said of this song, "John and I would like to do songs with just one note like 'Long Tall Sally'. We get near it in 'The Word'
Arranged here for wind quartet, the flute takes verse 1 and is joined in harmony by the clarinet for verse 2.
Verse 3 is taken by the oboe, and all 3 top instruments take the melody, and chordal harmony for verse 4 till the end,
The bassoon takes the bass guitar riff throughout.
The mp3 starts just before the 4th verse.
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