S$# 026 Ringo Starr | Early 1970

This sort-of autobiographical b-side by Ringo offers some interesting insights into the immediate post-Beatles period of the 1970s. It was the flipside of Ringo's first big hit, It Don't Come Easy.

Perhaps it's because of Ringo's happy-go-lucky, friendly nature that he could present an optimistic, positive and forward-looking vision of his relationships with the other three in those acrimony- and litigation-filled days. He also takes a light-hearted view of his own instrumental limitations.

Lives on a farm, got plenty of charm, beep, beep.
He's got no cows but he's sure got a whole lotta sheep.
And brand new wife and a family,
And when he comes to town,
I wonder if he'll play with me.

Laying in bed, watching tv, cookie!
With his mama by his side, she's Japanese.
They scream and they cried, now they're free,
And when he comes to town,
I know he's gonna play with me.

He's a long-haired, cross-legged guitar picker, um-um.
With his long-legged lady in the garden picking daisies for his soup.
A forty acre house he doesn't see,
'Cause he's always in town
Playing for you with me.

I play guitar, a - d - e.
I don't play bass 'cause that's too hard for me.
I play the piano if it's in c.
And when i go to town I wanna see all three,
And when i go to town I wanna see all three,
And when i go to town I wanna see all three.

Ringo wrote Early 1970, but had some major assistance from George. It appears as a bonus track on the CD of his 1973 album, Ringo.

Ringo doesn't do encores at his concerts. If he did, this is a song I'd want him to play as a closer.