Song: Back In The U.S.S.R.
Artist: The Beatles
Album: The Beatles (The White Album), 1968
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHD5nd3QLTg
http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/back-in-the-ussr/
Tempo: 4|4
Tuning: Standard
Chords:
EADGBe
020100
A X02220
XX0232
X32010
XX0212
X02020
X40212
X30212
X21202
|Jet Noise | | | |
Oh, flew in from Miami Beach .O...,
Didn't get to bed last night.
On the way the paper bag was on my knee,
Man I had a dreadful flight.
I'm back in the U.S.S.R.,
You don't know how lucky you are boy.
()
Back in the U.S.S.R.. (Yeah)
Been away so long I hardly knew the place,
Gee it's good to be back home.
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case,
Honey disconnect the phone.
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I'm back in the U.S.S.R.,
(Hand Clap)
You don't know how lucky you are boy.
N..
Back in the U.S.,
Back in the U.S..
()
Back in the U.S.S.R..
BRIDGE 1:
Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out,
They leave the West behind.
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout,
That Georgia's always on my, my, my, my, my, my, mind.
INSTRUMENTAL:
Oh come on!...
Ho yeah!.
Ho yeah!,
Ho ho yeah!.
()
Yeah yeah!.
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Yeah I'm back in the U.S.S.R.,
You don't know how lucky you are boys.
()
Back in the U.S.S.R..
BRIDGE 2:
Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out,
They leave the West behind.
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout,
That Georgia's always on my, my, my, my, my, my, mind.
Oh, show me around your snow-peaked mountains way down south,
Take me to your daddy's farm.
Let me hear your balalaika's ringing out,
Come and keep your comrade warm.
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I'm back in the U.S.S.R..
Hey you don't know how lucky you are boys,
()
Back in the U.S.S.R.
CODA:
Oh, let me tell you, honey,
I'm back! (Shouting)
|Jet Noise | (Fade)
[End]
NOTES:
1. "...I was sitting at the breakfast table and McCartney came down with his acoustic guitar and
he was playing Back In The USSR, and I told him that what you ought to do is talk about the girls
all around Russia, the Ukraine and Georgia. He was plenty creative not to need any lyrical help
from me but I gave him the idea for that little section... I think it was light-hearted and humorous
of them to do a take on the Beach Boys. ..." - Mike Love, 'Many Years From Now',
Barry Miles." http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/back-in-the-ussr/
2. Unusually, the drums on 'Back In The USSR' were recorded mainly by McCartney, with contributions
from Lennon and Harrison, after Ringo Starr had temporarily walked out of the group. According to
Barry Miles, Starr left when McCartney criticised him for messing up a tom-tom fill. With the
atmosphere in the studio already often tense, the altercation was enough for the normally amenable
Starr to reach his limit. He left London and spent a fortnight on Peter Sellers' yacht in the
Mediterranean. http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/back-in-the-ussr/