Norwegian Wood

[Tapiola]

A song, as written and performed by members of a 1960s Liverpudlian "popular music" band known as "The Beatles". Not to be confused with "Norwegian Mood", four of which extant published examples remain, ascribed to a Russian "classical music" composer known as "Igor Stravinsky".

[Flay]

I've always wondered if there was a deeper meaning to the song:


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?

[Tapiola]

I've always wondered if there was a deeper meaning to the song:


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?

Dr Flay,

Unhappily, I was sat in the park with my aged wheelchair-laden grandfather yesterday afternoon, talking birdsong (he in a wheelchair and mostly silent), when an abnoxious teenage cretin in tartan trousers, high on cheap cider, started singing this very ditty to his compadres (who, teenage as they were, were, to their credit, embarrassed by their tool-ish friend's outburst). I abhor violence in all its forms. My grandfather, in his prime, was the strongest man I ever knew but also the most gentle... You may imagine the thoughts that were running through my head!

[jayne lee wilson]

...don't forget the lovely novel with the same title by Haruki Murakami...(recommended).

[MrGongGong]

Dr Flay,

Unhappily, I was sat in the park with my aged wheelchair-laden grandfather yesterday afternoon, talking birdsong (he in a wheelchair and mostly silent), when an abnoxious teenage cretin in tartan trousers, high on cheap cider, started singing this very ditty to his compadres (who, teenage as they were, were, to their credit, embarrassed by their tool-ish friend's outburst). I abhor violence in all its forms. My grandfather, in his prime, was the strongest man I ever knew but also the most gentle... You may imagine the thoughts that were running through my head!

"O, my God, I seem to have woken up in a Ken Russell Movie " ?

[gurnemanz]

Bob Dylan paid tribute to it (parodied it?) in "Fourth Time Around" on "Blonde on Blonde".

[cloughie]

I wondered where this thread came from or where it will lead, but interesing that it was started by a Scandinavian forest spirit. All I can say about NW is that Rubber Soul was probably the Beatles best album, and that Buddy Rich did a great Big Band version of the tune.

[Lateralthinking1]

Bob Dylan paid tribute to it (parodied it?) in "Fourth Time Around" on "Blonde on Blonde".

Yes. I think the Stranglers also went close to it. And Cornershop took it back to its "Indian roots"

Cornershop - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_5V62wxnWY

Bob Dylan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwXVKSxt5WE

The Stranglers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVHVvbnmgjM

The Beatles - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5i4-rWh44

[eighthobstruction]

off topic I'm afraid....but can you tell me the name of the Bob Dylan song that goes....ahem...."They darn you when you dee dee dee dee dee, they darn you when you dee deeetc"....recorded as if a Louisiana brass band is in the background + noisy party....

....thank you . greetings from Skipton....

[Lateralthinking1]

off topic I'm afraid....but can you tell me the name of the Bob Dylan song that goes....ahem...."They darn you when you dee dee dee dee dee, they darn you when you dee deeetc"....recorded as if a Louisiana brass band is in the background + noisy party....

....thank you . greetings from Skipton....

Skipton? Nice.

Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 (Blonde on Blonde)

[eighthobstruction]

>>>Skipton? Nice<<< ????

For all our landscape we have limited horizons here....

....very nice during golden hour....

[Lateralthinking1]

>>>Skipton? Nice<<< ????

For all our landscape we have limited horizons here....

....very nice during golden hour....

What could be better?

[eighthobstruction]

Yep that's the one....terribly important for the 501st first chapter of my great C21st century novel.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

>>>Skipton? Nice<<< ????

For all our landscape we have limited horizons here....

But Pen-y-Ghent is such a magnificent limitation!

[martin_opera]

...don't forget the lovely novel with the same title by Haruki Murakami...(recommended).

Superb novel. Not quite as good as the Wind Up Bird Chronicle but superb. Love Murakami (but couldn't get 1Q84 at all).