Walrus

[woodelf]

Has there ever been an academic study (or whatever) on the meaning of the words in John Lennon's *I am the walrus* and if so, what and by whom? Ta Muchly.

[jno]

there's some stuff here

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=138

Eric Burdon as the eggman because he liked to break eggs over the bodies of naked women... well, I never.

[woodelf]

Me neither jno, but I'll have a look at the site...Ta!

[woodelf]

Thanks jno for the link to a fascinating site!

[andy-hughes]

Lennon was well known for his love of language for its own sake, and his fondness for nonsense verse. i think he would laugh loud and long at 'analysis' of words that simply pleased him when put together.

[MarkRae]

Lennon famously said that, as he was writing this song, he was laughing in anticipation of the people who who would desperately try to work out what it meant.

Because it just *HAS* to mean something, right...? LOL!

[woodelf]

Hi Andy and Mark, yeah I agree, Lennon had a love of playing with words re his book In His Own Write etc and of course, a total disregard of academia...or summat like that.