Ken Burch
Aug 5, 2021

This isn't sexual, but there's also been a long-standing discussion about what John might have meant in the last verse of Norwegian Wood:

"And, when I awoke, I was alone/this bird had flown/So, I lit a fire/isn't it good, norwegian wood?". Some people thought he just meant he started a fire in the fireplace- others(including Paul McCartney) thought he meant he'd burned the building down.

Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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