She Said She Said

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"She Said She Said"

Song by The Beatles
from the album Revolver
Released	August 5, 1966
Recorded	April 6-June 21, 1966
Genre	Rock
Length	2:37
Label	Parlophone
Writer(s)	Lennon-McCartney
Producer(s)	George Martin
Revolver track listing
Yellow Submarine (6)	"She Said She Said" (7)	Good Day Sunshine (8)

"She Said She Said" is a song by The Beatles on the 1966 album Revolver. It was primarily written by John Lennon about one of his first LSD trips. Even though the song is called "She Said She Said" the opening lyric, "I know what it's like to be dead" was a remark made to John Lennon while he (Lennon) was on acid, by actor Peter Fonda about an incident in Fonda's childhood in which he had almost died after accidentally shooting himself. Legend has it that Lennon had Fonda removed immediately because he was "freaking him out."

After the recording of the song, The Beatles producer George Martin is reported to have said: "All right, boys, I'm just going for a lie-down."

Paul McCartney recalls that the band had a row before the track was recorded, with McCartney walking out. His vocal is certainly missing, and George Harrison is thought to be the bass player, though many sources insist that it was Paul all along. ^{[citation needed]}

The song uses mostly just 3 chords: B-flat (I), E-flat (IV), and A-flat (flat-VII). The song is in the key of B-flat Mixolydian, and makes occasional pivots to E-flat.

The song was covered in 1980 by The Chords, who included it on their debut album So Far Away; Ween for their 1987 album Axis: Bold as Boognish; the Snake River Conspiracy, who included their version on the "Vulcan" single in 1999; and The Black Keys, on their first album The Big Come Up in 2002. Gov't Mule perform the song live, quite frequently, as a medley with Tomorrow Never Knows.

It is documented in the Anthology book that the line "When I was a boy, everything was right" was contributed by George Harrison.

The song is also often noted as one of Ringo Starr's most innovative contributions. The spinning, whirling drumming seems to have no connection to the vocals or any other instrument, yet still connects with them somehow in a remarkable way. Some drum enthusiasts have referred to Ringo's performance on this track as one of the best drum tracks ever recorded in pop music.

"She Said, She Said" includes a passing reference to The Lord of the Rings, and writer John Lennon was known to have been a fan of them. During the song's fade-out, Lennon can be heard singing a series of seemingly nonsensical sounds; these phrases are either a Lennon pre-taped vocal played backwards, or Lennon imitating the sound of a reverse-tape voice. At the start of the fade-out Lennon can clearly be heard chanting the words "Ash Nazg", the first two words of the invocation engraved on the Ring of Power. See Middle-earth in popular culture.