Song

Get Back

Release date: 11 April 1969

Jo Jo was a man who thought he was a loner,
But he knew it couldn't last.
Jo Jo left his home in Tucson Arizona,
For some California grass.

Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged.

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman,
But she was another man.
All the girls around her say she's got it coming,
But she gets it while she can.

Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged
Get back, get back.
Get back to where you once belonged

"Get Back"
Single by The Beatles with Billy Preston
B-side "Don't Let Me Down"
Released 11 April 1969
Format 7"
Recorded 27 January 1969
Genre Blues rock, pop rock
Length 3:14
Label Apple
Writer(s) Lennon-McCartney
Producer George Martin
Certification 2x Platinum (RIAA)
The Beatles chronology
"Hey Jude"
(1968)
"Get Back"
(1969)
"The Ballad of John and Yoko"
(1969)
"Get Back"
Song by The Beatles from the album Let It Be
Released 8 May 1970
Length 3:07
Label Apple Records
Producer Phil Spector
Let It Be track listing
12 tracks
Side one
  1. "Two of Us"
  2. "Dig a Pony"
  3. "Across the Universe"
  4. "I Me Mine"
  5. "Dig It"
  6. "Let It Be"
  7. "Maggie Mae"
Side two
  1. "I've Got a Feeling"
  2. "One After 909"
  3. "The Long and Winding Road"
  4. "For You Blue"
  5. "Get Back"

"Get Back" is a song by the Beatles, originally released as a single on 11 April 1969 and credited to "the Beatles with Billy Preston." A different mix of the song later became the closing track of Let It Be (1970), which was the Beatles' last album released just after the group split. The single version was later issued on CD on the second disc of the Past Masters compilation.

The single reached number one in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, West Germany, and Mexico. It was the Beatles' only single that credited another artist at their request. "Get Back" was the Beatles' first single release in true stereo in the US. In the UK, the Beatles' singles remained monaural until the following release, "The Ballad of John and Yoko".

©1969 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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