...What is this song about? Was that a commonly used word, or did they just completely make it up? I love the song I just really have no Idea what John is saying,at all. (It just hit me now,i had never thought about it)
John said this in 1980: "Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. But [the song] was kind of ... you're just a weekend hippie. Get it?"
Uh, not really. But... I think it was simply another play on words by John. He probably just liked the way it sounded.
The obvious interpretation from the context of the song is that a "Daytripper" is a girl who leads a guy on, or takes what she can get without returning the favor.
John said this in 1980: "Day trippers are people who go on a day trip, right? Usually on a ferryboat or something. But [the song] was kind of ... you're just a weekend hippie. Get it?"
Uh, not really.
His implication is that the song is about people who indulged in the alternative lifestyle on the weekends, but returned to their straight nine-to-five lives during the week - ie they were false. But John is quite good at changing the past, and it may well be that the song was more obviously a joke about a teasing girl (this is how McCartney remembers it I think, who lumps it with "Drive My Car.") And yes, daytripper was a common term. Daytrippers, who visit a place only briefly, are seen are seen as people who don't really appreciate the place they're visiting. A traveller would say "another bus of bloody daytrippers clogging the place up!" Which makes Johns lyric "She was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah" all the more nonsensical, because the whole point of a daytripper is that they don't have a one way ticket. What was he on - drugs or something?
Considering what this song is probably about (or how it can be interpreted) I find it very amusing that it was covered by both Nancy Sinatra, and Anne Murray!
I just want you to reassure him - talk to him, make him see the error of his ways. Then I'll hit him.
I sort of did a double take the first time I heard 'a big teaser' ('A what?!')
Haven't we all been taken half the way there at some time?
you're telling me... lol (but that being sad, the song still has the first real KILLER bass line in a Beatle song that I remember..awesome) (*sings* "It took me soooooooo long to find out......but I found out !")
On the Anthology DVD I remember Paul commenting on the song, which he did say that is was a drug song. I just thought it was about a girl who, for lack of better terms, only lets you get to 2nd base but wants you to think she's going to let you get a homerun
(...)Which makes Johns lyric "She was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah" all the more nonsensical, because the whole point of a daytripper is that they don't have a one way ticket. What was he on - drugs or something?
since the lyrics are so stupid and nonsensical, it's probably Paul who wrote them, considering he said the song was more or less co-written
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" 'day tripper' was [written] uder complete pressure, based on an old folk song i wrote about a month previos. It was very hard going, that, and it sounds it. It wasn't a serious message song. It was a drug song. In a way, it was a day tripper- i just liked the word." -john lennon, 1970
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