50 likes | 330 Views
A Ballad. She’s Leaving Home By The Beatles. A Ballad-Definition. a. A narrative ( (סיפורי/עלילתי poem, often of folk origin( מקור עממי ) It is often sung(music), and composed in short simple stanzas ( בתים ) .
E N D
A Ballad She’s Leaving Home By The Beatles
A Ballad-Definition a. A narrative ((סיפורי/עלילתי poem, often of folk origin(מקור עממי ) It is often sung(music), and composed in shortsimple stanzas(בתים) . b. A popular song especially of a romantic or sentimental ((רגשיnature.
"She's Leaving Home" Background a Lennon–McCartney song, released in 1967 on The Beatles albumSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. McCartney wrote and sang the song and Lennon the chorus.( (פיזמון
Paul McCartney: John and I wrote 'She's Leaving Home‘ together. It was my inspiration((השראה. We'd seen a story in the newspaper about a young girl who'd left home and not been found. That was enough to give us a story line. John, he was doing the parents' view ((נקודת מבט in a Greek Chorus((מקהלה יוונית : 'We gave her most of our lives, we gave her everything money could buy.'
The True Story The newspaper story McCartney mentioned was about a girl named Melanie Coe. Although McCartney invented((המציאmost of the content ((תוכןin the song, Coe, who was 17 at the time, claims((טוענתthat most of it was accurate((מדויק. She left in the afternoon while her parents were at work, while the girl in the song leaves early in the morning as her parents sleep. Coe was found ten days later When she returned home, she was pregnant and had an abortion.