Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Lennon/McCartney

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me.
She showed me her room, isn't it good, norwegian wood?

She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere,
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair.

I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine.
We talked until two and then she said, "It's time for bed".

She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh.
I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath.

And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown.
So I lit a fire, isn't it good, norwegian wood.

During that year (1965), towards the end of that year anyway, I kept hearing the name of Ravi Shankar, I've heard about it three times. And about the third time that I heard about it, it was some friend of mine who said, he heard this person, Ravi Shankar. "You might like that." (he said). So I went out and bought a record. That was it. I just felt like I felt very familiar to me to listen to that music. So it was around that time that I bought a sitar, just bought a cheap sitar in a shop called "India Craft" in London. And it was lying around I hadn't really figured out what to do with it. And when we were working on "Norwegian Wood", it just needed something. Just needed something. And it was just quite spontaneous, and what I remember I just picked the sitar up and kind of found the notes and I kind of played it. Just light it up and we put it on and we just hit the spot.
-George.