Dear Boy

Song ratings

Rating	Comments	Author	Date
	What can I say? This is pure magic to my ears. Pauls dominant piano, Beach Boys-style backing vocals by Paul and Linda and Denny Seiwell's extremely effective drumming. Great guitar sound from 1.39 onwards. I learned that this sound was created with Denny hitting the guitar strings with his sticks while Paul was playing the notes with a bottleneck. Great result. The only thing I can object is that it's a bit short.	Bobber	April 11, 2012
	Vocal arrangements were one of the Beatles' most prominent areas of excellence, and Paul carries this emphasis into his solo career. This is a nice song which certainly must have made Linda feel loved indeed. Paul writes these lyrics in a unique manner, with the song's lines ending in the middle of sentences, phrases dangling all over the place, and with nothing about the song and the lyrics matching. And yet the lyrics, when written down, tell a lucid story. All of which makes this a very difficult song to sing with!	Bruce Beatlefan	October 15, 2011

Lyrics

I guess you never knew,
Dear boy, what you had found,
I guess you never knew,
Dear boy, that she was just the cutest thing around.
I guess you never knew what you had found,
Dear boy.

I guess you never saw,
Dear boy, that love was there,
And maybe when you look too hard,
Dear boy, you never do become aware.
I guess you never did become aware,
Dear boy.

When I stepped in, my heart was down and out,
But her love came through and brought me 'round,
Got me up and about.

When I stepped in, my heart was down and out,
But her love came through and brought me 'round,
Got me up and about.

I hope you never know, dear boy,
How much you missed,
And even when you fall in love,
Dear boy, it won't be half as good as this
I hope you never know how much you missed, dear boy.

I stepped in, my heart was down and out,
But her love came through and brought me 'round,
Got me up and about.
Dear boy, how much you missed,
Dear boy.

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