| 1965: The Beatles' Third Christmas Record Producer: Tony Barrow / Writer: Tony Barrow and The Beatles
 
 
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 |  | Here I stand head in hand Turn my face to the wall
 If she's gone I can't go on
 Feeling two-foot small
 
 Everywhere people stare
 Each and every day
 I can see them laugh at me
 And I hear them say
 
 Hey you've got to hide your love away
 Hey you've got to hide your love away
 
 How can I even try
 I can never win
 Hearing them, seeing them
 In the state I'm in
 
 How could she say to me
 Love will find a way
 Gather round all you clowns
 Let me hear you say
 
 Hey you've got to hide your love away
 Hey you've got to hide your love away
 
 
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 | Recorded on Nov. 8, 1965 / Released on Dec. 17, 1965. Recorded in Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road.
 Label: Lyntone // Total Time: 6:20
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 | Several off-key, a cappella versions of "Yesterday" are dispersed throughout the record, alongside Lennon's 
"Happy Christmas to Ya List'nas", "Auld Lang Syne", a one-and-a-half-line version of the Four Tops' "It's the 
Same Old Song" (which they quickly stop before they violate the copyright) and an original poem titled 
"Christmas Comes But Once a Year". Members of the Beatles' US fan-club did not receive this (or any) Christmas 
flexi-disc in 1965. Rather, they received a black and white postcard, with a photo of the Fab Four and the 
message "Season's Greetings – Paul, Ringo, George, John." The Beatle Bulletin, the publication of the US 
fan-club, explained in its April 1966 edition that the tape arrived too late to prepare the record in 
time for Christmas. | 
 
   
 
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