The drum riff that kicks this one of is unmistakable. It always makes me happy, as I realize what I'm about to hear. It's the only song that Ringo wrote that appeared on a Beatles album and The Band's favorite song on The White Album. The lyrics are simplistic...but that's Ringo for you, and isn't that his best trait? His lovable loser persona is emphasized by the fact that his song finds him in danger of being alone. In a move that has been heard endlessly since from other bands: the song breaks down into silence only to be bounced back into action again by those trusty drums for another minute of country-pop bliss. Most important of all is the fiddle arrangement, and it is wonderful. To quote Alan W. Pollack: "This song provides an object lesson on how an almost painfully simplistic ditty can still be redeemed by virtue of an imaginative arrangement and delivery."
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