Just discovered this recently. One of Paul's best.
@lindasalvaterra1304
4 ай бұрын
Just another beautiful song from Paul McCartney!
@kevinmoss6428
7 ай бұрын
Underrated classic
@maybeimamazedtribute
7 ай бұрын
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@musicaficionado2974
9 ай бұрын
One of the best songs ever! Very few people know it or react to it. Thank you so much for doing it!
@maybeimamazedtribute
9 ай бұрын
absolutely! This is a great track
@ianhunter8327
8 ай бұрын
My fav always
@thomastimlin1724
9 ай бұрын
This underrated song with 3 parts is one of my all time favroties of McCartney's....has a sneaky way of applying heartbreak exepriences in your own life if you have the ability to read into it. Many people want straight forward story telling or logic "git er done" songs rather than allegorical lyrics. They don't even know what allegorical means. That's their loss due to lifelong trained impatience that has poisoned their heads by repetitive media and music business drivel . This is a song the can be about the heartbreak of separation. If people cannot see this in the lyrics they could not possibly see it in themselves, they are oblivious to human emotion and heartbreak. "Dragonfly Don't Keep Me Waiting I'm Waiting Can't You See Me I'm Waiting When We Try We'll Have A Way To Go Dragonfly You've Been Away Too Long How Did Two Rights Make A Wrong Since You've Gone I Never Know I Go On But I Miss You So In My Heart I Feel The Pain Keeps Coming Back Again"
@maybeimamazedtribute
9 ай бұрын
hmmm
@willrohan7256
4 ай бұрын
@@maybeimamazedtribute He's missing John.
@braemtes23
9 ай бұрын
This song is about a lamb the had just been birthed on Paul's farm in Scotland and was dying. I think the lyrics mean: I can help you out (of this world) but I can't help you in (to this world).
@maybeimamazedtribute
7 ай бұрын
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@Skedawg88
9 ай бұрын
One of Paul’s very best. I was stunned when I first heard it.
@maybeimamazedtribute
9 ай бұрын
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@aBeatleFan4ever
9 ай бұрын
This is two songs that Paul stuck together (something he has done many times). He connects the first part "Little Lamb" to the second part "Dragonfly" - with the ""La la la la" part. I like the "Dragonfly" song much more than the "Little Lamb" one. I think the connecting section (which is later repeated as the ending section) is pretty nice. It has a lovely sweet sound to it. But I think he probably could have made "Dragonfly" a better song if he had not included the "Little Lamb" section. I'd love to hear what he might have done with the song - without the "Lamb" part. And, yes... I'm sure there are fans that love it just as it is - that think I'm nuts.
@Fred-fl2fo
9 ай бұрын
This song to me is wonderful. hit me when I first heard it all those years ago.
@williambill5172
9 ай бұрын
My favorite Paul song of all time!
@maybeimamazedtribute
9 ай бұрын
wow! really? thats cool man
@rickmitchell9655
9 ай бұрын
I've always felt that Dragonfly was about John. The lyrics fit so well.
@maybeimamazedtribute
9 ай бұрын
interesting take
@strathman7501
9 ай бұрын
I think Paul himself often doesn't know what his songs are "about", lyrics just well up to fill the space made by the music, then more words and images associate themselves kind of randomly - but as he said himself "it always does mean something", and in this case I do wonder if John Lennon was in his mind in the Dragonfly section. Look at the album cover for a start and recall that classic break-up period photo of John holding a big red rose under his nose. Then look at other photos of John hidden behind those iconic round dark glasses and think of the image of a dragonfly with round black dead-looking eyes. Then look at the lyrics through that lens: Dragonfly fly by my window You and I still have a way to go Don't know why you hang around my door I Don't live here any more Since you've gone I never know I go on, but I miss you so Dragonfly don't keep me waiting When we try, we'll have a way to go Dragonfly, you've been away too long How did two rights make a wrong? Since you've gone I never know I go on but i miss you so In my heart I feel the pain Keeps coming back again Dragonfly fly by my window You and I can find a way to see Dragonfly, the years ahead will show How little we really know Since you've gone its never right They go on the lonely nights, Come on home and make it right Speculation obviously. I'm pretty sure Paul would say, "Hmm, I wasn't thinking of that when i wrote it", but he might add, "But hey, it could be, man!"
@dan2050
9 ай бұрын
I agree completely especially lines like how did 2 rights make a wrong. Also, Paul wrote this in late 70 or early 71 as it was considered for Ram. So it was composed when Paul was most confused and upset about the breakup. Even the little lamb section could be seen as a metaphor for Paul giving them a way out of the Beatles but not being able to keep them together in the band. John once said Paul hid the meaning of his lyrics better than he did. But, in my opinion, Paul always brought his feelings into his songs.
@strathman7501
9 ай бұрын
@@dan2050 Good point that this masterpiece was a Ram era song. Presumably the orchestration was done by George Martin, then, like the other Ram tracks. I wonder why it was passed over for Ram? I think it would have been terrific on that album, in place of, say, Eat At Home, which is fine but not in the same class at all.
@Uetti
9 ай бұрын
@@strathman7501Maybe the coda of this song and the overall structure are quite reminiscent of Long Haired Lady, and they didn't want two songs with a similar structure in
@maybeimamazedtribute
7 ай бұрын
it's fun to speculate
@edwardmeradith2419
2 ай бұрын
Yes! I always thought there were lines for John in the song, whether conscious or not-
@markydh83
9 ай бұрын
It’s funny you should mention the whole Movie soundtrack thing. It was originally intended to be used on Paul’s Rupert Bear and the Frog Song project, which had been in planning since the beginning of the 70s before finally being put together and released in the early 80s. So it was intended to be a children’s song rather than having serious lyrics, despite that actually being an unintentional occurrence. Hugh McCracken was on guitar. Interestingly the only instrument Paul played on this one was the bass. Linda played piano.
@maybeimamazedtribute
7 ай бұрын
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@Kieop
4 ай бұрын
Except it sounds nothing like a children's song. I've heard so much about this song, so hearing it here for the first time, I was really surprised by how adult the theme is and how complex the music is.
@jamesleung8679
2 ай бұрын
Check out 1882, another great song by Paul of the same period.
@franciscoarzaga4384
7 ай бұрын
Thank you
@ianhunter8327
8 ай бұрын
Rip John
@maybeimamazedtribute
8 ай бұрын
✌️
@franciscoarzaga4384
7 ай бұрын
When I’m alone with my acoustic I always sing this song and some people never know
@davemack7577
9 ай бұрын
See Douglas Adams on Paul McCartney songs - this was the song that would have enabled him to buy . . . - you work it out!
@maybeimamazedtribute
9 ай бұрын
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@Kieop
4 ай бұрын
Well, that was unexpected. I'd heard about this song and its supposed background/inspiration, and it didn't sound at all like what I thought it would be. I thought it would be a sweet acoustic song for children, something not unlike Calico Skies, not a gutwrenching cri-de-coeur about loss and separation. His fear of lonely nights makes an appearance, too, which makes me wonder how this all got resolved before Give My Regards to Broad Street. I have read critics calling it "too cute for its own good", a "delightful confection", "wistful and lovely", with "childlike" lyrics that are not as sophisticated as the music etc. What were THEY listening to? The lyrics are allegorical and aside from the sense of separation anxiety, difficult to decipher. He tells the dragonfly that it should stop coming by his place because he doesn't live there anymore (he's not the same person?), while entreating the dragonfly to come back, because he misses it and wants to impress it with how well he is flying. Hmm. Maybe it IS about Lennon and his ambivalent feelings about the breakup after all. Wow. Good song.
@filiprim62
8 ай бұрын
I think I never heard this song, harmonically it's very interesting, a bit longer but it's the last song of side one. Nice.
@maybeimamazedtribute
8 ай бұрын
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@BRIANZ969
9 ай бұрын
No Wings-solo album
@maybeimamazedtribute
9 ай бұрын
Are you saying this is a solo album? This is Paul McCartney & Wings
@michaelsmith-sk2zq
8 ай бұрын
It was Wings. Reworked from Ram .
@johnchrysostomon6284
9 ай бұрын
I love this song. Very under-rated My only criticism is the song is probably a little too long
@maybeimamazedtribute
9 ай бұрын
maybe but i dont mind it
@denpea-mm8zr
9 ай бұрын
This is another song originally recorded on the Ram sessions, so we have Hugh McCracken on electric guitar again, Denny Seiwell is on drums. "Little Lamb Dragonfly" is pleasant enough, but certainly not great McCartney imho. Too many la-las for my liking. "Live and Let Die" is my fave recorded during the RRS sessions.
@michaelsmith-sk2zq
8 ай бұрын
With Denny Laine contribution of vocals on Red Rose Speedway working. Denny's 1st wife mentioned that he added lead vocal to the opening section.
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