She Is A Friend Of Dorothy's - John Lennon

Recorded sometime during his retirement from music.

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• Beatles
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[crocetti1984]

Lyrics?

[beatleboybob]

Come to the underground Sure know her way around TV pretty elegant Art deco decadent Hot lips and no shame All fun and no game She is a friend of Dorothy's She is a friend of A friend of Dorothy's - she shows it A friend of Dorothy's - I know it A friend of Dorothy's - who is she? Whoever she is

[beatleboybob]

Queen of the discotheques

Sheik of Arabesque

France jeans and nasty boots

Red hair and yellow rood

Frederick to Hollywood

Forty-second and bloody good

Chorus

Trust in God and she will provide

She keep you satisfied

Chorus

[linclink]

Man this is one of the many unreleased Lennon tracks that it would have been a joy to see the Threetles get a hot at. The whole "Dakota Beatle Demos" bootleg is a treasure trove. I'd love to see a project of one album of the Lennon demos, and one of other artists giving "Threetles" treatments to the demos. Blessings!!

[beatleboybob]

That would be great, imagine all the artists that would get involved.

[WilburyVision]

Ironically, this whimiscal song is very much in the style of McCartney songs like Martha my Dear, and You Gave me the Answer - songs Lennon often said were very lightweight, and went aginst his rock and roll ethic. Lennon was a lot softer than he sometimes tried to make out during his short life, and had more in common with Paul than people think.

[n136ha]

the expression "a friend of dorothy's" is an old fashioned English way of tactfully saying someone is gay. don't hear it much these days but it was well known expression to John and my parent's generation. i think gays would also use it to tell who was gay ie "are you a friend of dorothy?"

[KingAbacus2009]

This song is ok.

[Stube437]

@BellBottomBlues07 more like Rufus Wainwright!

[Stube437]

Wow! This sounds good. Pity John ddn't write a musical while he was in his reclusive period!

[Aydee2020]

Dorothy Gale,is a massive gay icon.If you watched or knew the story of the Wizard Of Oz,you would realize that she accepts different kinds of characters.This was derived by one woman whose name is also Dorothy,who was famous in UK in the past(gay icon).Then people realized that Dorothy is a coincidental reference to homosexuality.

[Otisxsnotbset]

Sure doesn't sound like John Lennon. I admit that the voice is similiar but like many "fake" beatles outfakes the vocal is hidden or in the background. I've never really heard him sing with a vibrato in his voice. That's my opinion though but on the other hand I'm aware that after John was shot that many recordings were stolen by "friends".

[SgtOBrien]

Sounds like an ABBA song.

[BellBottomBlues07]

I could SO picture Jack White singing this. Very, very cool!

[LethalExistence]

Everyone whose said anything about how this song is similar to a Paul song is correct. John's style changed dramatically over the years he left the Beatles, and in part of his own self discovery he had to fill the void or gap in his writing style that Paul used to fill ;D ... which is why John went from writing Strawberry fields and many transcendental trips back to more basic forms like this ... every once in a while ;D

[EricDymond]

Damn that's catchy!

[flowerdoodle]

@WilburyVision Righto! Anyone who knows Lennon and his canon knows this...Think 'If I Fell', "Do you want to know a Secret ?", "Julia", "Goodnight ", "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)", "Woman", "Love" etc, etc, etc,--All "soft side of Lennon" classics! He was a teddybear!