You know that what you eat you are

You know that what you eat you are
but what is sweet now turns so sour
We all know ob-bla-di-bla-da
but can you show me where you are

why the heck did he use this awful lyric?

dahldude...

Place holder at first? Then...

has there ever been an album that referenced a song title from the same
album? Is this is a passive agressive swipe at having had to record the

dahldude...

Maybe a concept album like Tommy... dunno, though...

I guess he was doing John one better (Glass Onion)

PM song so many times? Or maybe this was recorded before OBLAHBLAH??

Chris Jepson...

I always had the feeling that this might have been the first instance of
inter-Beatle aggression via song lyric. Sort of, "Oh yes, your music
is so pretty, but how about giving us something that reveals something
of your true self?"

Chris Jepson

dahldude...

Good thought. Although it was a tune originally started w Clapton's
sweet tooth in mind, the line w OLDOLD might have been a place holder
lyric at first, then deemed a keeper, with a surreptitious message that
the rest of us would only know as a benign song reference, like the GO
references.

dahldude...

Savoy Truffle was recorded way late in the WA game, after all the
OLDOLD takes and versions, so your presumption is a total possibility.
Nice sleuthing and one for the ??? pile...

DanKaye...

Yes, I must say, I always liked the music but never liked the lyrics
to this song. I think he was doing John's thing of writing a song
based on anything, like using a box of breakfast cereal to write "Good
Morning"...

rforman61...

I always took this not as a swipe at Ob (or maybe only a very mild
one), but just referencing something he could predict even before the
album was released, that ObLaDi would very quickly become a very well
known and popular ditty, pretty much instantly ubiquitous.....he could
confidently state "we all know obladibla da" because it was a safe bet
that almost as soon as both songs were out, we would "all know" Paul's
song as well as George did when he sang this line, from having
rehearsed and played it a million times!