From Me To You – The Beatles

‘From Me To You.’ It could be done as an old Ragtime tune… especially the middle-eight. And so, we’re not writing the tunes in any particular idiom. In five years time, we may arrange the tunes differently. (jokingly) But we’ll probably write the same old rubbish !!

「フロム・ミー・トゥー・ユー」は古いラグタイム音楽になり得た曲だ。特にミドルエイトはね。だから僕らは特別な言い回しを使わなかった。この先5年間でこの曲を別のアレンジでやるかもしれない…(冗談めかして)でもきっと同じように古臭いものになるんだろうね！

We were writing it in a car, I think… and I think the first line was mine. I mean, I know it was mine. (humms melody) And then after that we just took it from there. We were just writing the next single. It was far bluesier than that when we wrote it. The notes, today.. you could rearrange it pretty funky.

たしか車の中で書いたんだ、最初の部分は僕が作ったんだと思う。それからふたりで続きを書いた。次のシングルのためにね。最初はもっとブルースっぽかったんだ。ファンキーなアレンジにもできる曲なんだよ。

The thing I liked about ‘From Me To You’ was it had a very complete middle. It went to a surprising place. The opening chord of the middle section of that song heralded a new batch for me. That was a pivotal song. Our songwriting lifted a little with that song. It was very much co-written.

「フロム・ミー・トゥー・ユー」で印象的だったのはミドルエイトだね。衝撃的だったよ。この部分の最初のコードは僕らを新しい世界に導いてくれたんだ。この曲で僕らの曲作りのレベルはちょっと上がった。そういう点で重要な曲なんだ。ふたりの共作だよ。