The Remarkable Story Behind One of the World’s Best Loved Songs

Richard Holman
6 min readApr 5, 2024

‘Scrambled eggs, oh my baby, how I love your legs.’

If I were to tell you that these were the original lyrics to one of the greatest songs of the 20th century, recorded by artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Billie Eilish and Aretha Franklin - as well as 2200 others - you’d probably wonder what I’d been smoking.

Yet these are the original lyrics to ‘Yesterday’ by the Beatles.

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Richard Holman

Writer, speaker, creativity coach. Author of ‘Creative Demons & how to Slay Them’.