Ticket To Ride is NOT what you thought
Ticket To Ride is NOT what you thought
Ticket To Ride is one of The Beatles’ most loved songs but did you know, it’s true meaning is a bit blurred? John Lennon and Paul McCartney gave different opinions on what the song was about. This video explores what inspired the song and its title and how The Beatles recorded it.
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I thought this was the life of a horse-riding ticket seller, but the english horse didn't care.
I always thought it was about masturation. Got a good reason for taking the easy way out. She's a big tease she took me half the way there…
Whatever the explanation, it's just another brilliant song by the Beatles….
As a spanish-speaker, it confused me for several years the line "she DON'T care". I thought it was correct for years, until a english teacher told me that the correct way is "she DOESN'T care". After another few years, I read somewhere that at least in Liverpool, "she don't care" is the normal way to say it.
Don't forget that John wanted us all to believe that his son drew a picture titled,
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Right.
It IS implausible that it's about German sex workers. The lyric is "she's got a ticket to ride, and she don't care". That makes no sense for a woman who's been given a card clearing her health-wise for future sex. Illogical. McCartney's explanation is more possible. Or maybe it's just a simple narrative story about a girl who's driving a guy mad who is leaving him "and she don't care"…. Just possibly.
Long, long ago I heard that there was a home for unwed mothers in Ryde. Does fit with the lyrics.
Have you ever looked up euphemisms for sex? Anything can be made into inuendo. Why not just accept it as a sweet song about a girl? And young romance isn't always serious. Those times weren't about all the angst of today. Get ove rit. Why make everything smutty. Don't y'all get tired of it?
It's not about PID is it?
A ticket to ride could also mean that they have a means to an good result/end without effort. In other words, all would be given to them because of love.
any claims Paul makes after John's death that Paul never made when John was alive need to be taken with a grain of salt.
do you honestly believe Dick James' story? As if John needed Dick's approval or okay.
On what planet is this a “heavy” song? Even in 1965, No, Ticket to Ride was a Pop song with an unforgettable and distinctive driving beat.
Always thought they meant she was free to go and ride whoeverer she liked…and she don't care ! No wonder he thinks he was going to be sad .
My mum was a schoolteacher in Nigeria in 1965. She clearly remembered hearing young children, who didn't yet speak much English, walking to school singing "she gotta tikki-toorai" in chorus. Such was the Beatles' cultural reach at the time.
John and Paul were both of strongly Irish ancestry, and quite recent. They had a lot of Irish-born relations. And in Ireland, you have to be very careful about how you use the word 'ride' which is commonly used as a euphemism for sex. "She gave him a ride" is not something you ever want to say about a woman there, unless you intend to be ribald. So that's what it means, and there's no mystery at all about it. Whatever other associations they had, as Irish Liverpudlians, they'd know that's the main association anyone in Liverpool would draw.
The lyric means "She could have me for the asking, but she doesn't give a shite." And you didn't have to be from Liverpool to get it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Hamburg prostitutes, the Isle of Wight, or anything else like that. It's about a boy wanting a girl who has no intention of giving him a tumble, and anyone, boy or girl, can relate.
Johns explanation in 1966 Hamburg !
I think the term was a cynical take on the fact that his girl was leaving because she wanted experience with other men. Not one particular guy, but just to to sew some wild oats. And he’s basically saying she wants to go off and have a 304 phase, referring to the health card for professional girls in Hamburg. What she doesn’t care about is what people would think about her promiscuity.
Brilliant song; I'll always assume the naughtier meaning behind any Beatles lyric is the correct one–or at least the ones the lads were amusing themselves with while performing. Meanwhile, John's tendency to gradually diminish the others' contributions to his songs always cracks me up. I'm frankly surprised that he didn't finally land on the claim that all McCartney added to the song was the harmony line in the "My baby don't care" fadeout! Love him.
Local newspaper reporter Lucy Neumann of Arkansas City, Kansas, had exhausted her prepared questions in her interview of a 100-year-old woman on her birthday. But the older lady seemed reluctant to end the conversation, her eyes sparkling as she told stories of living from the age of covered wagons to the age of airplanes, and loving every minute of it. So Neumann asked "Have you ever been bedridden?" "Oh, honey," the woman replied, "hundreds of times! And twice in a haystack!"
I don't think any of these explanations fits that line as much as mine: a ticket to ride means she can be my girl if she wants; that was meant as a double or even triple entedre. But she dont care. In other words, shes just not that into me – not as much into me as i am into her. Ergo, bye bye love!
A while back when I was discussing this song with my mother, she told me that she understood it to be about a young girl going to Ryde for an abortion, is that’s where they were performed. After hearing her comment on that, the lyrics took on and even sadder and more emotional tone with me. The phrase “my baby don’t care” has a potential secondary meaning when you put a comma after baby. Effectively indicating that he thinks the appointment is today and he may be sad about her decision to lose the baby.
Honestly, I’ve never heard anybody but my mother describe it like this, so I don’t know if this was just her interpretation. She’s in her mid 70s now, so was a young girl when this came out.
I recently read Paul's "Lyrics" two-volume set. The number of Beatles / McCartney songs with sex jokes, dick references, and drug puns in them is really eye opening.
That's not the real Beatle, he died years ago…..everybody knows….so who cares what this self-serving cabal promoted twit says? 💖🌻
so many commercials—what a greedy bastard you are, and not even all that fab with the yap
It's bio-pic.
A Ticket to ride ….. some young hot ass….. I would surmise….. LOL !
Basically all silly gossip.
Occam's razor dictates that it's "She's got a ticket to Ryde"…
It's a "Bio-Pic" NOT a "Bi-Opic"!!!
The English go on holiday not vacation.
To english speaking people, what does it sound like when they say “my baby don’t care” ínstead of “doesn’t care”?? I’ve always wondered, does it bother you? Does it sound wierd? I know It’s because the phrase doesn’t fit in the tempo of the song but just curious about it
The instrumentation on the Help album is really curious in terms of who plays what. I’ve always wondered why it was so mixed up
oh you silly sausage
If there's ever a question of which of two different meanings a Lennon-McCarthy song might have, the safest answer is "both"
The Beatles always had multiple meanings to anything they wrote because they were clever songwriters. To me, Ticket to Ride is about a girl dumping a guy and "she don't care." A long time ago I lived with a boyfriend and whenever he gave me any trouble, I sang to him "she says that livin' with me is bringin' her down -yeah!"
Bleeping out the name "Dick" in the start of the video. 😀
It’s amazing how Paul has taken every opportunity to rewrite history with himself as the hero. Lennon/McCartney were the greatest songwriting duo in rock & roll history. Both did brilliant solo work at times, but never as brilliant as when they were together. Sometimes Paul’s attitude gets on my nerves…😂but can’t deny the man’s talent.