From music history: July 30th 1969

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The song was recorded in three takes on 2 July, with Paul McCartney singing live to his acoustic guitar accompaniment before the rest of the group began work on ‘Golden Slumbers’/‘Carry That Weight’.

McCartney recorded three takes, all complete, which can be heard on some formats of the 50th anniversary reissue of Abbey Road. His acoustic guitar was recorded on track one of the eight-track tape, with his vocals on track eight.

On 30 July, when it was decided which songs would end up in the long medley, McCartney decided that ‘Her Majesty’ didn’t fit.

We did all the remixes and crossfades to overlap the songs, Paul was there, and we heard it together for the first time. He said, ‘I don’t like ‘Her Majesty’, throw it away,’ so I cut it out – but I accidentally left in the last note. He said, ‘It’s only a rough mix, it doesn’t matter…’ I said to Paul, ‘What shall I do with it?’ ‘Throw it away,’ he replied.
I’d been told never to throw anything away, so after he left I picked it up off the floor, put about 20 seconds of red leader tape before it and stuck it onto the end of the edit tape.

John Kurlander, engineer
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn

The following day a lacquer version of the album was cut at Apple, and the song was again kept in. McCartney approved of the random accident, and so it remained on the final version.

That was very much how things happened. Really, you know, the whole of our career was like that so it’s a fitting end.

Paul McCartney

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Lyrics:

Her majesty’s a pretty nice girl
But she doesn’t have a lot to say.
Her majesty’s a pretty nice girl
But she changes from day to day.

I wanna tell her that I love her a lot,
But I gotta get a belly full of wine.
Her majesty’s a pretty nice girl,
Someday I’m gonna make her mine.
Oh yeah, someday I’m gonna make her mine.

The Beatles – Her Majesty (1969 Rehearsals)

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