[A lunchtime question…] Yesterday, I started recording a bunch of albums from my uncle, and use the opportunity to purchase two digital albums. One of them, “Boots” by Nancy Sinatra, has one of my most hated Beatles songs: “Run for Your Life“. Nancy’s version is particularly cringeworthy, becoming “You better run for your life if you can, little boy”, but the original is pretty bad as well. I cannot even imagine a song like that being done today by a mainstream group. Consider the words: “Well I’d rather see you dead, little girl / Than to be with another man / You better keep your head, little girl / Or you won’t know where I am /
You better run for your life if you can, little girl / Hide your head in the sand little girl / Catch you with another man / That’s the end’a little girl”. Simply put: “If you ever cheat on me, I will hunt you down and kill you.” Well, it might be done by gangsta rap, but I wouldn’t know, as I don’t listen to that. Every time I hear that song, I go “Why?”
So, that prompts me to ask you this question: What do you think is the absolute worst Beatles (Lennon/McCartney) song?
