Riding On a Bus (Live at the BBC for “Top Gear” / 26th November, 1964)

Lyrics

[Brian Matthew] Before we hear another song, fellows There's a few things I'd like to ask you and first of all Do you ever get tired of being Beatles? [Comedic yawning from John, Paul, George, and Ringo] [Paul McCartney] We don't think so, really [Brian Matthew] You don't ever think that? [Paul McCartney] No. Just occasionally, you get cheesed off with the people writing rubbish about you Which you get often [John Lennon] I agree with that, I've had a divorce and a half a dozen kids [Brian Matthew] Now, what do you, eh- [Paul Laughs] [Brian Matthew] -Well, I mean, doesn't, isn't this a big, big sort of drag Every time you have to go around explaining to your wife that you're not divorced and all that sort of things? [John Lennon] No, she knows I'm not divorced Cause I keep seeing her every day, you see [Brian Matthew] Yes, a point, but what about the simpler things of life, like, eh [Paul McCartney] Like riding on a bus? [Brian Matthew] Yeah, or going to just about any restaurant you- [Paul McCartney] Well, yeah, you miss those sort of things [John Lennon] We go to certain ones [George Harrison] And we go to ones where the people there are so snobby, they're the type who pretend they don't know us, so we have a good time, cause they pretend they don't know us [Paul McCartney] Joe's Caf' [Brian Matthew] Yeah, that figures [Paul McCartney] Joe's Cafe, social statement, that, you know [George Harrison] It is