#1: "I'm So Tired". Its chief claim to fame in my book it is one of the two songs that I remembered well enough to mention to my father as reasons to get Beatles' CDs for Christmas, which was the beginning of my introduction to rock'n'roll. ("Rocky Raccoon" was the other. That's right, two songs from the deepest darkest depths of the White Album--well, OK, "Revolution 9" is deeper and darker--were what led to my becoming a Beatles fan. Weird, huh?)
But it's also just a great song, and it introduced me to the word "git", which I suppose could be considered a point in its favor? It's also not often you here Sir Walter Raleigh name-checked in your pop music, which is a nice touch. (He's the man who brought the idea of smoking tobacco to England from the Indians of Virginia and/or the Carolinas. At least, that's the way John Lennon tells it, and I think it's true.)
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I remember those two too (is that weird? I think we have discussed this before) but I thought I had an inkling of "Don't Pass Me By" as well.
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