Dig a Pony is a song by the Beatles, originally released on their 1970 album Let It Be. Dig a Pony was the penultimate song played at the concert on the rooftop of Apple Studios in Savile Row, London on 30 January 1969. John Lennon was the songs composer and singer but the song was credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was originally called All I Want Is You. Lennon would later comment that he thought the song was a piece of garbage, though he has shown similar scorn for many of his songs. It was written for his soon-to-be wife Yoko Ono, and featured a multitude of strange, seemingly nonsense phrases which were strung together in what Lennon refers to as a Bob Dylan style of lyric. The working title for the song, All I want is you was originally the title of another composition by Lennon for Yoko, from which the chorus was taken. Early American copies of Let It Be mistitled this song as I Dig A Pony. The song was one of the songs on Let It Be that was recorded at the rooftop concert, with an assistant holding up Lennons lyrics for him as a cue. It begins with a false start, with Ringo Starr yelling Hold it! to halt the other band members because he was blowing his nose and had only one drum stick in his hand. On the Anthology 3 version of this song, the first verse and the end of the song start off with Paul McCartney singing All I want is... This phrase appeared in every performance of the song but was cut from the final version by Phil Spector, and subsequently cut from the Let It Be... Naked version. In rehearsals and takes, the last variation on dig a pony was dog a boney, perhaps a reference to This Old Man. This is the lyric that appears on Glyn Johns assembly of Get Back. On the Anthology version, Lennon sang the spoonerism bog a doney. During the rooftop concert, Lennon substituted what sounds like rode a lorry, and this is the version that appears on both the Let It Be album and Let It Be... Naked.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 04:45:11 +0000
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