You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
(written by: Lennon/McCartney )
Originally recorded by: The Beatles
Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she’s gone I can’t go on
Feelin’ two-foot small
Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey you’ve got to hide your love away
Hey you’ve got to hide your love away
How could I even try
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I’m in
How could she say to me
Love will find a way
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say
Hey you’ve got to hide your love away
Hey you’ve got to hide your love away
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Documentation
John Lennon's friend Pete Shotton came up with the "Hey"s in the chorus.
The line "feeling 2 foot small" was written "feeling 2 foot tall." Lennon sang it wrong but liked it and left it that way.
Lennon: "That's me in my Dylan period."
Session musicians played flutes. It was the first time outsiders played on a Beatles record.
It was rumored that this was the first gay rock song, a message to Beatles manager Brian Epstein, who was gay.
Covered by Joe Cocker in 1991 on his album Night Calls. Cocker previously covered The Beatles "I'll Cry Instead," "With A Little Help From My Friends," and "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window."
Rick performed this song live a couple of times, once with his
merchandise guy (David Leon) in Cleveland, OH August 8/11/2000 and
again in the bar at Soaring Eagle Casino in November 2000.
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