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I'm listening to the Beatles' The Beatles 1 and working on my transcriptions of their songs for my Beatle-specific project. I noticed something about the chorus of "Ticket to Ride." Two of the four lines are "She oughta think twice; she oughta do right by me." It's very similar to the last line of each verse (and also the title) of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," except that where Dylan says not to think twice, the Beatles say "she oughta think twice." The "think twice" and "(al)right" are the two similar elements.
Apparently, "Ticket to Ride" is more of a John Lennon song than a Paul McCartney song, and since he mentioned that "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" from Help! (the same album that "Ticket to Ride" appears on) is from his "Dylan period," it seems a bit more likely that "Ticket to Ride" had some of that Dylan influence too.
