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0:00Music facts that sound fake but are real.
0:02One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking songs ever written
0:05actually started out as a breakfast order.
0:07One morning in 1964,
0:09Paul McCartney woke up with a hauntingly perfect melody
0:12playing in his head. He was so convinced
0:13he had accidentally stolen the tune from someone else
0:15that he spent weeks playing it for music experts,
0:18asking if they'd heard it before.
0:19Since he didn't have any lyrics yet,
0:21he used placeholder words just to keep the rhythm
0:23while he worked on the arrangement.
0:25Because he had just woken up,
0:26the first line that popped into his head wasn't yesterday.
0:28All my troubles seem so far away.
0:30Instead, he sat at his piano and sang scrambled eggs.
0:33Oh, my baby,
0:34how I love your legs. He kept those ridiculous lyrics for months
0:37and the band even started jokingly calling the track
0:40Scrambled Eggs in the studio.
0:41It got so bad that the director of the movie eventually snapped
0:44and told Paul that if he didn't come up with real lyrics soon,
0:47he was going to cut the song entirely.
0:49Paul finally took a solo trip to Portugal
0:51where he sat in the back of his car
0:52and forced himself to find words that match the sadness of the music.
0:56Scrambled Eggs became yesterday
0:58and the song went on to
0:59become the most covered track in the history of recorded music
1:01with over 22 different versions.
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