The song was The Ballad of John and Yoko, which amusingly has Lennon saying “Go a bit faster, Ringo” and McCartney replying, “Okay, George!”
The late Beatle reflected in 1969: “It’s something I wrote, and it’s like an old-time ballad. It’s the story of us going along getting married, going to Paris, going to Amsterdam, all that. It’s Johnny B. Paperback Writer. The story came out that only Paul and I were on the record, but I wouldn’t have bothered publicising that. It doesn’t mean anything.”
Lennon was married to Yoko Ono from March 1969, a couple of months before recording the song, until his death in December 1980.
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