Paul McCartney’s working lyrics for “Yesterday”:

Scrambled eggs

Have an omelette with some Muenster cheese

Put your dishes in the wash bin please

So I can clean the scrambled eggs

Join me do

There’s a lot of eggs for me and you

I’ve got ham and cheese and bacon too

So go get two and join me do

Fried or sunny side

Just aren’t right

The mix-bowl begs

Quick, go get a pan, and we’ll scramble up some eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs

Scrambled eggs

Good for breakfast, dinner time or brunch

Don’t buy six or twelve, buy a bunch

And we’ll have a lunch on scrambled eggs

“The song was around for months and months before we finally completed it,” John Lennon remembered. “We made up our minds that only a one-word title would suit; we just couldn’t find the right one. Then one morning Paul woke up and the song and the title were both there, completed. I was sorry in a way, we’d had so many laughs about it.”