Olivia Harrison finds lost song for Ringo
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3818336/george-harrisons-widow-lost-beatles-song-ringo-starr/ This is a brief excerpt from the article.
HEY RINGO! George Harrison's widow has given drummer Ringo Starr a LOST Beatles song her hubby wrote pleading he stay with the band in the 1970s Olivia Harrison discovered the lost lyrics in a folder inside a piano and has given them to the Beatles legend... George is thought to have written it as a plea for the band to stay together around the time of their 1970 split. She told of Ringo's shock -- and said she hopes the star, 76, and fellow surviving Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, 74, put it to music. She said: "He'd never seen this song before. He was so surprised. There was a folder in George's piano bench. "Inside I found a typed lyric for Hey, Ringo. It dates from around 1970. "He would put down a notebook and forget where he left it. "A piano bench was the obvious place to stash the night's debris."
Lyrics:
Hey Ringo, now I want you to know, that without you my guitar plays far too slow. And Ringo, let me say this to you, I've heard no drummer who can play it quite like you. Wait a minute Mr G, stop flattering me. My drums sound bare, when your guitar's not there. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Let me hear you playing. Hey Ringo, there's one thing I've not said, I'll play my guitar with you till I drop dead. Well G, it's really nice the things you say. But when you drop please fall the other way.
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In an interview with Billboard, about finding previously unknown material by George, Olivia said she told Ringo about this song last February:
Were there any revelations in what you discovered? Well yeah, yes, like the song "Hey Ringo." Ringo had never seen it until last Saturday [at the gallery/pop-up store]. He said, "Hey, I've never seen that before." And I said I hadn't either. I guess it was in the piano bench in an envelope. And there was this song called "Hey Ringo" that they think was from around 1970 or 1971. And it's really sweet. I'm going to get it framed and give it to him because it's really sweet. It's like "Hey Ringo, or something, "That without you my guitar plays far too slow." That was a big revelation and surprise. Ringo was totally surprised and really happy. What a gift to have all these years later.
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Awwwwww...that's sweet
