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Released in 2012

Scrambled Eggs

Written by Paul McCartneyJohn LennonGerard BradfordMike DiCenzo


Album This song officially appears on the Blow Your Pants Off Official album.

Timeline This song was officially released in 2012

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Scrambled Eggs” was the initial title for “Yesterday“; from Wikipedia:

[…] As Lennon and McCartney were known to do at the time, a substitute working lyric, titled “Scrambled Eggs” (the working opening verse was “Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs“), was used for the song until something more suitable was written. In his biography, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, McCartney recalled: “So first of all I checked this melody out, and people said to me, ‘No, it’s lovely, and I’m sure it’s all yours.’ It took me a little while to allow myself to claim it, but then like a prospector I finally staked my claim; stuck a little sign on it and said, ‘Okay, it’s mine!’ It had no words. I used to call it ‘Scrambled Eggs’.” […]


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Scrambled Eggs” has been played in 2 concerts.

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