But John probably started with a joke because he frightened himself with how vulnerable he got in the other song he brought in that day: “Norwegian Wood.” As he admitted, “I was trying to write about an affair without letting me wife know I was writing about an affair. I was writing from my experiences, girls’ flats, things like that.” It was popular for Swinging London trendies to decorate their homes with Norwegian pine. “So it was a little parody really on those kinds of girls who when you’d go up to their flat there would be a lot of Norwegian wood,” Paul explained years later. “It was
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