Paul McCartney: Showing You What a Lousy Songwriter I Am
“That’s not very good, but you could work on that.”
This will probably be crummy
But you know you can just—
Melvyn Bragg
Was in the parlor
And he said
That he was going to have
Some tea.
That’s not very good,
But you could work on that.
Melvyn Bragg was in the...
Gonna have some tea.
Will you have some tea with me?
Melvyn Bragg.
It’s not a good name.
This is the only problem.
Melvyn Rigby,
We could do something with.
I mean that’s not good,
But that’s the kind of thing
It comes from.
You just dare enough to—
I mean you know that’s silly.
I shouldn’t dare to do that.
I’m showing what a lousy writer I am.
You see what I mean?
But that’s what it all comes out of—
You just plunk along anything.
And it can be bad three times,
But then maybe the fourth time
The little bit of inspiration
Will come on that
And just the one little thing
Will turn that into something good.
— Paul McCartney
The South Bank Show (1978)
Foolish fun