I've Got A Feeling'I've Got A Feeling' was again two unfinished songs strung together, this time Paul's 'I've Got A Feeling' and John's 'Everybody's Had A Hard Year'. Paul's song, optimistic as ever, was presumably written for Linda just to tell her that she was the girl he'd always been looking for. John's song was a litany where every line began with the word 'everybody'. John had indeed been through a hard year. His marriage to Cynthia had ended, he was separated from his son Julian, Yoko had suffered a miscarriage, he had been arrested on a charge of drug possession and he reckoned his personal fortune had dwindled to about 50,000 pounds. During the filming of Let It Be, John runs through 'Everybody's Had A Hard Year' and states, somewhat tongue in cheek, that it was something he had started writing the night before. If this were true, it would date the song's origin to January 1969, where he is singing the song with an acoustic guitar in the garden of his Ascot home. |