WINGS

Wild Life

(1971)

1. Mumbo 3'58
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
Also claimed by KIDNEY PUNCH
2. Bip Bop 4'09
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
Also claimed by KIDNEY PUNCH
3. Love Is Strange 4'52
(Mickey Baker / Ethel Smith)
Originally projected as an early 1972 Single but withdrawn before release
Published by CROMWELL MUSIC Ltd.
4. Wild Life 6'41
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
Also claimed by KIDNEY PUNCH
5. Some People Never Know 6'37
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
6. I Am Your Singer 2'18
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
7. Bip Bop Link 0'53
(Paul McCartney / Denny Laine)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
8. Tomorrow 3'27
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
9. Dear Friend 5'59
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Recorded during the late 1970 Ram sessions in New York City
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
10. Mumbo Link 0'54
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.

Bonus Tracks

11. Give Ireland Back to the Irish 3'46
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
12. Mary Had a Little Lamb 3'34
(Paul McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
13. Little Woman Love 2'11
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd.
14. Mama's Little Girl 3'41
(Paul & Linda McCartney)
Published by MPL Communications Ltd. / ATV MUSIC Ltd.

Total Time: 53:00 (44:47 + 33:46)

  • Paul McCartney – Bass Guitar, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals
  • Linda McCartney – Keyboards, Piano, Percussion, Vocals
  • Denny Laine – Guitars, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards, Vocals
  • Denny Seiwell – Drums and Percussion

    Produced by Paul and Linda McCartney
    Except Tracks 11-13 Produced by the McCartneys and Track 14 co-produced by Paul McCartney / Chris Thomas
    Engineers: Alan Parsons, Tony Clark
    Mixed by Bill Price (14)
    Recorders: Dolmetsch
    Pholo: Barry Lategan
    Typo: Gordon House

    All Songs written by Paul and Linda McCartney
    Except 3 by Baker / Smith and 12 by Paul McCartney

    Digital Remasters P 1993
    Original P dates: Tracks 1-10 1971, Tracks 11, 12 & 13 1972, Track 14 1990

    The Copyright in this sound recording is owned by MPL Communications Inc., under exclisive licence to EMI RECORDING Ltd.

    When Paul and Linda McCartney were in New York recording 'RAM' they needed a drummer so they found a sweaty old basement in the West 40's and invited some drummers to play on a battered old drum kit. One of those who turned up and went straight for his torn toms was Denny Seiweli, a tall type with eight generations of drummers in his family, who played well and left the drum kit throbbing. After that, Paul, Linda and Denny played together on 'RAM' and then each took off for a holiday. The Macs returned to Britain and during the time following wrote a bunch of songs at their country retreat.
    When the time came to go recording again they rang Denny Laine, a Birmingham lad, and asked him if he was coming out to play. Replying in the affirmative he brought his faithful guitar, and he and the Macs, along with Denny S. (who had arrived from the States as if by magic carrying his wife who was drunk again) and his drums, proceeded. They rehearsed for a while, sang some old songs, wrote some new ones and in time headed for the big city studios. In three days they had laid down most of the tracks and by the end of a couple of weeks the album was finished. In this wrapper is the music they made. Can you dig it?

    - Clint Harrigan

    An APPLE RECORD

    EMI RECORDING




    1. Mumbo

      Take it Tony
      Well your love has my mind
      One moment and I'll break it
      Well my life just couldn't take no wrongs
      Or else it'll break it

      Come on people don't play up
      Come on people don't be
      Come on people don't lay out
      Come on Lulu the raider

      Well my mind has the love
      I know's gonna make it
      Well my love has to make it
      Or else I'm gonna break her

      Come on people don't play up
      Come on people don't be
      Come on people don't play with Lulu
      Come on Benjamin's gonna lay dead

      Come on people don't play up
      Come on people don't lay her
      Come on people don't play up
      Come on people don't lay

      Come on people gonna play up
      Come on people gonna be
      Come on Benjamin play up
      Come on Benjamin lay dead

      Well I need your love or else I'm gonna make it
      Well this time it's been made
      My love I'm gonna mess with you

      You don't seem to be
      You don't seem to be
      You don't live for me
      You don't stay around me

      Come Mama we're gonna break it
      Well little darling tonight I'm gonna lay dead

      Come on people don't be
      Come on people don't be
      Come on Benjamin's gonna lay her
      Give me a piece of my mind

      Your love just didn't make it
      Your love just didn't make it
      Well, your love just didn't make it

      Come on (x10)
      Oh, Mama,
      Oh,

      Well,
      Oh Lulu, my love.

    2. Bip Bop

      Bip bop, bip bip bop
      Bip bop, bip bip band

      Dig your bottom dollar
      put it in your hand

      Try to hang out
      underneath the stand

      Put your hands together
      gonna see a band

      Treat me like a good boy
      Treat me like a man

      Take me hair and curlers
      But treat me like a man

    3. Love is Strange

      Baby, love is strange
      Many many people, take it for a game
      My sweet baby, love is strange
      Yeah Yeah
      Many many people, take it for a game
      Yeah Yeah
      Love is strange
      Love is strange

      Yeah Yeah
      Many many people, take it for a game
      Yeah Yeah
      Love is strange
      Love is strange

      Many people, they don't understand
      They think that having love is, like having money in the hand
      My sweet baby, love is strange
      Many many people, seem to take it for a game

      La la la la
      Love is strange
      La la la la
      Love is strange

    4. Wild Life

      The word "wild" applies to the words "you" and "me".

      While take a walk thru an African park one day,
      I saw a sign say, "The animals have the right of way".

      Wild life, whatever happened to,
      Wild life, the animals in the zoo?

      We're breathing a lot,
      a lot of political nonsense in the air.

      You're making it hard for the people who live in there.
      You're moving so fast, but, baby, you know not where.
      Wild life, (wild life), what's gonna happen to
      Wild life, (wild life), the animals in the zoo?

      You'd better stop, there's animals ev'rywhere,
      And man is the top, an animal too,
      And, man, you just got to care.

      Wild life, what's gonna happen to,
      Wild life, the animals in the zoo?

      You're breathing a lot of polical nonsense in the air.

      Wild life, (wild life), what's gonna happen to
      (what's gonna happen to) (what's gonna happen to)
      Wild life, (wild life), the animals in the zoo?
      (what's gonna happen to) (what's gonna happen to)
      Wild life, what ever happened to?
      What ever happened to?

    5. Some People Never Know

      No one else will ever see
      how much faith you have in me,
      Only fools would disagree that it's so,
      Some people never know.

      Like a fool I'm faraway,
      ev'ry night I hope and pray
      I'll be coming home to stay and it's so,
      Some people never know.

      Some people can sleep at nightime,
      believing that love is a lie.
      I'm only a preson like you, love,
      and who in the world can be right
      all the right time.
      I know I was wrong, make me right, right.

      Only love can stand the test,
      only you outshine the rest,
      Only fools take the rest,
      Only fools take second best, but it's so,
      Some people never know.

    6. I Am Your Singer

      You are my love, you are my song, liger on,
      You are my song, I am your singer.

      You are my one, you are my own melody,
      You are my song, I am your singer.

      Someday when we're singing
      we will fly away, going winging.

      Sing, singing my love song to you.

      My song is sung,
      when day is done harmonies willinger on,
      I am your singer,
      I am your singer,
      singing my love song to you

    7. Bip Bop Link

      (instrumental)

    8. Tomorrow

      Oh, baby, don't let me down tomorrow,
      Holding hands we both abandon sorrow,
      Oh, for a chance to get away tomorrow.

      Hey, baby's got a lazy dday on sunday,
      Here's a pound, we hang around'til monday,
      Oh, baby don't you let me down on sunday.

      Bring a bag of bread and cheese and find a shady spot beneath the trees.
      Catch abreath of country air and run your pretty fingers thro' my hair.

      Tomorrow, when we both abandon sorrow.
      Oh, baby, don't you let me down tomorrow,
      Thro' the week we beg and steal and borrow.
      Oh, for a chance to get away tomorrow.

      Honey, pray for sunny skies so I can speak to rainbows in your eyes.
      Let's just hope the weather man is feeling fine and doesn't spoil our plan.

      Tomorrow, when we both abandon sorrow.
      Oh, baby, don't you let me down tomorrow,
      Holding hands we both abandon sorrow.
      Oh, baby, don't let me down tomorrow.

      Oh, for a chance to get away tomorrow.
      Baby, don't let me down tomorrow,
      baby, don't let me down tomorrow.

      Oh, don't let me down,
      Baby, don't let me down tomorrow.
      Baby's, don't let, let me down tomorrow,
      baby, don't let me down tomorrow.

    9. Dear Friend

      Dear friend, what's the time?
      Is this really the borderline?
      Does it really mean so much to you?
      Are you afraid, or is it true?

      Dear friend, throw the wine,
      I'm in love with a friend of mine.
      Really truly, young and newly wed.
      Are you a fool, or is it true?

      Are you afraid, or is it true?

    10. Mumbo Link

      (instrumental)

    11. Give Ireland Back To The Irish

      Give Ireland back to the irish
      Don't make them have to take it away
      Give Ireland back to the irish
      Make Ireland irish today

      Great Britian you are tremendous
      And nobody knows like me
      But really what are you doin'
      In the land across the sea

      Tell me how would you like it
      If on your way to work
      You were stopped by irish soliders
      Would you lie down do nothing
      Would you give in, or go berserk

      Give Ireland back to the irish
      Don't make them have to take it away
      Give Ireland back to the irish
      Make Ireland irish today

      Great Britian and all the people
      Say that all people must be free
      Meanwhile back in ireland
      There's a man who looks like me

      And he dreams of god and country
      And he's feeling really bad
      And he's sitting in a prison
      Should he lie down do nothing
      Should give in or go mad

      Give Ireland back to the irish
      Don't make them have to take it away
      Give Ireland back to the irish
      Make Ireland irish today

      Give Ireland back to the irish
      Don't make them have to take it away
      Give Ireland back to the irish
      Make Ireland irish today

    12. Mary Had A Little Lamb

      Mary had a little lamb,
      his fleece was white as snow,
      Ev'rywhere that Mary went,
      that lamb was sur to go.

      And you could hear them singing:
      La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
      La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

      He followed her to school one day,
      it was against the rules,
      Made the children laugh and play to
      see a lamb at school.

      You could hear them singing:
      La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
      La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

      Soon the teacher turned it out,
      still it lingered near,
      Waited patiently about till
      Mary did appear.

      You could hear them singing:
      La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
      La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

      "But the lamb loved Mary so",
      the eager children cry,
      "And Mary loves the lamb, you know",
      the teacher did reply.

      And you could hear them singing:
      La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
      (Ev'ry body singing)
      La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

    13. Little Woman Love

      I got a little woman I can really love,
      My woman fit me like a little glove.
      You know I'll always love
      my little woman love.

      I take her home most ev'ry night,
      My woman love to hold me tight.
      You know I feel alright
      my little woman mine.

      Oh yeah, oh yeah,
      Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
      Oh yeah, oh yeah,
      Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

      I take her home most ev'ry night,
      My woman love to hold me tight.
      You know I feel alright,
      my little woman mine.

    14. Mama's Little Girl

      Looking like a rag doll
      Mama's little girl
      Singing like a skylark
      Mama's little girl
      Better give me some time for this heart of mine
      Cause I just can't take it all in
      Still I will remember
      Mama's little girl

      Ohhhh Mama's little girl, little girl
      Mama's little girl, little girl

      Looking like a rosebud
      Mama's little girl
      Pickin' up a mountain
      Mama's little girl
      Better give me some time for this heart of mine
      Cause I just can't take it all in
      Still we will remember
      Mama's little girl

      Ohhhh Mama's little girl, little girl
      Mama's little girl

      Looking like a rag doll
      Singing like a skylark
      Growing like a rosebud
      Pickin' up a mountain
      Mama's little girl
      Mama's little girl

      Better give me some time for this heart of mine
      Cause I just can't take it all in
      Still I will remember
      Mama's little girl
      Still we will remember
      Mama's little girl
      Still we will remember
      Mama's little girl

      Ohhhh Mama's little girl, little girl
      Mama's little girl, little girl
      Mama's little girl