Saturday, January 5, 2019

"Golden Slumbers"

This morning I started reading entries about the recording of "Golden Slumbers" in Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions [early July 1969].  Just in thinking about the song, I realized a small feature:  "you rise" in the line "Smiles awake you when you rise" is sung to an ascending interval (a sixth: G to E), which musically gives a sense of that "ris[ing]."