I Lost My Little Girl

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I Lost My Little Girl is the first song Paul McCartney had ever written. The Quarrymen performed it live from 1957 to 1959. They, now under the name of The Beatles, also performed it during the Get Back sessions in January 1969, although, this time John performed lead vocals instead of Paul, who had sung lead in the original performances.

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Paul McCartney wrote I Lost My Little Girl right after he got his first guitar. He recalls, "I persevered with the trumpet for a while. I learnt The Saints, which I can still play in C. I learnt my C scale and a couple of things. Then I realized that I wasn't going to be able to sing with this thing stuck in my mouth, so I asked my dad if he'd mind if I swapped it for a guitar, which also fascinated me. He didn't, and I traded my trumpet in for an acoustic guitar, a Zenith, which I still have. It was OK as a first guitar. Being left handed, I would play it upside down. Everyone else had right-handed guitars, but I learnt some chords my way up: A, D and E - which was all you needed in those days. I started writing songs, because now I could play and sing at the same time. I wrote my first when I was fourteen. It was called 'I Lost My Little Girl' - 'I woke up this morning, my head was in a whirl, only then I realized, I lost my little girl, uh, huh, huh.' It's a funny, corny little song based on three chords - G, G7 and C. I liked the way one melody line went down and the other went up, which I think is called contrary motion. It was a very innocent little song All my first songs, including that one, were written on the Zenith; songs like Michelle and I Saw Her Standing There. It was on this guitar that I learnt Twenty Flight Rock, the song that later got me into the group The Quarry Men."

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Source

  • LENNON, J., MCCARTNEY P., HARRION G., STARKEY R., 2002, The Beatles Anthology, Chronicle Books -- Buy it on Amazon.com
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