The Band Who...Were Men Of Few Words

Talk about Primitive.

I thought Love Me Do was remarkable for only having 19 different words in the whole song.

I Wanna Be Your Man has only 18!

They are

I, me 

you, your 

love, lover

baby 

be 

can 

let 

like 

man 

no 

other 

tell 

that 

understand 

wanna

Other contenders are Magical Mystery Tour with 36 words, Don't Let Me Down with 40 and Little Child with a positively verbose 46. But the outright winner is I Want You (She's So Heavy) which has 13 (6 of which are in the title).

Calm down Shakespeare!

Chapter 2.5 With The Beatles - I Wanna Be Your Man, Little Child!

Continuing the more streamlined ‘get through all the songs before 2014’ style here’s the next instalment of chapter 2 of the Beatles catalogue. 

Two originals, that are very primitive in a Love Me Do kind of way.

I Wanna Be Your Man was apparently written in a matter of minutes for the Rolling Stones to cover. The Stones did record it, but the writing process had more impact than the song - seeing Lennon & McCartney in action was what inspired Jagger & Richards to give songwriting a shot themselves.
A week after giving the song to the Stones, Lennon & McCartney gave it to Ringo to sing on With The Beatles.

It ‘s an workman-like Bo Diddley style mixolydian blues. The IV/V (D/E) chord on the end of the verse chorus “I wanna be your maaa – aaan” is nice.

Also fresh outta the cave (man) is Little Child. Another harmonica sprinkled beat song with one of the few fade outs on an early Beatles track.

Both tracks are more groove than song, well done but not very substantial.