The Beatles' 'Day Tripper': Paul McCartney Said Parents Didn't Understand 1 Lyric From the Song
Paul McCartney said one of the lyrics from The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” had a risque meaning.
He compared it to a line from The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life.”
“Day Tripper” was more popular in the United Kingdom than it was in the United States.
Paul McCartney said The Beatles‘ “Day Tripper” included a provocative lyric. Paul felt older listeners would not understand it. Despite this, he felt “kids” got it.
In the 1997 book Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, Paul discussed The Beatles’ “Day Tripper.” “This was getting towards the psychedelic period when we were interested in winking to our friends and comrades in arms, putting in references that we knew our friends would get but that the Great British Public might not,” he said.
Paul commented on a provocative lyric from the song. “So ‘she’s a big teaser’ was ‘she’s a p**** teaser,'” he added. “The mums and dads didn’t get it but the kids did. ‘Day Tripper’ was to do with tripping.”
Source: Matthew Trzcinski/cheatsheet.com
