Hello, Goodbye Lyrics



Lennon/McCartney


You say yes, I say no.
You say stop and I say go go go, oh no.
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello.

I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don't know, oh no.
You say goodbye and I say hello
HELLO GOODBYE HELLO GOODBYE hello hello
HELLO GOODBYE I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
HELLO GOODBYE HELLO GOODBYE hello hello
HELLO GOODBYE I don't know why you say goodbye
HELLO GOODBYE I say goodbye.

Why why why why why why do you say goodbye goodbye, oh no?

You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello.

You say yes I SAY YES I say no BUT I MAY MEAN NO.
You say stop I CAN STAY and I say go go go TILL IT'S TIME TO GO OH, oh no.
You say goodbye and I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say goodbye
Hello hello
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello hello.

Hela heba helloa CHA CHA, hela...

 
Lead Singer: Paul

Recording: 10/2/67, 10/19/67, 10/20/67, 10/25/67, 11/1/67, 11/2/67
Mixing: 11/2/67, 11/6/67, 11/15/67
Length: 3:24
Take: 21

Anomalies

1:15-1:16, 1:30 * NEW *
Handclaps, seem to mark out solo area
1:54-1:55 * NEW *
Right - a clicky sound as John and George's voices are punched in, possibly from the echo unit.
2:05 * NEW *
Right - Someone hits something, viz. "I can stay 'til it's time to go [BANG]". Also background hiss reduces as the vocals are taken out here. Throughout 1:54-2:05, headphone leakage of other instruments increases with the new vocal tracks being added.
Paul McCartney wrote this. His friend Alistair Taylor, who was visiting McCartney, asked Paul one day how he wrote his many songs, and how he came up with his ideas. Paul took him into his dining room to give him a demonstration of his hand-carved harmonium. As an experiment, Paul asked Taylor to shout out the opposite of whatever he sang, such as black and white, yes and no, hello and goodbye, etc. From this, the song was born.
John Lennon hated the song. He viewed it as an inconsequential song of McCartney's, saying it was "three minutes of contradictions and meaningless juxtapositions." What further infuriated Lennon was that his "I Am The Walrus," was issued as the B-side to McCartney's A-side "Hello Goodbye." (thanks, gavin - hampden, MA, for above 2)
They made a music video for this, but at the time they were called promotional films. It was banned by the BBC because Paul was clearly lip-synching, which was against The British Musician's Union's rules.
The working title was "Hello, hello."
There is a fake ending on this that drove disk jockeys nuts.


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