We'll Watch The World As It Happily Ends
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I first heard 'We'll Watch The World As It Happily Ends' on a bootleg compilation cassette of rare Macca related material back in the early 80's. Supposedly its a Wings outtake from around the time of the Back To The Egg sessions but its never been confirmed either officially or unofficially. So is this song a rare Wings track or is it by another totally unrelated artist? Has the artist been wrongly identified, intentionally or unintentionally? You decide?
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Unfortunately the recording is of poor quality: -
I think it is probably him. I played it a couple of times and it became stuck in my head, so to speak, which is a very good indicator that it is a composition/recording of his. It sounds most like him and Wings near the end of the track. Pity that the quality suffers. If we could ever get a deluxe edition of Back to the Egg, perhaps it would be included on the bonus disc.
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^ Yes,it is a very catchy song and it does sound like Paul.
Then again, I thought Penny O'Dell (sic) was a really good song and sounded like Paul too? 
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Sounds more like a Dave Davies outtake than McCartney, but I don't know the actual artist myself either.
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Doesn't sound like McCartney to me.
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It sounds like Paul, but maybe not. Really interesting...
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It doesn't sound like him. But the uploader seems to be a knowledgeable, hard core bootleg collector. It might be him.
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At moments it sounds like Paul, but the recording quality is pretty poor, so it's hard to tell for sure. If it's Paul/Wings, I wish they'd released it, it's a fun record.
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I can hear "Paul" a lot in this.... with Status Quo as the backing band..... not convinced it is the real Paul, however...
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It sounds like Wings & its actually a good tune. Therefore, I doubt its actually Paul & Wings as he would have mentioned it or surfaced by now.
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That's not Paul, not even close. Surprised at you.
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Squid:
That's not Paul, not even close. Surprised at you.
Of course not. And even the song title is totally against the grain of what he's about.
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I'm in the "It's not Paul" column. Even in bad quality, I can't hear his style of singing. The music doesn't help me either....
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Sure sounds like Wings to me. Especially the chorus of "ah, ah, the future"; sounds exactly like Paul from the Run Devil Run album. And the guitar solos resemble licks from Back To The Egg. Pretty cool song.
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That is not Paul McCartney.
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The hook is very reminiscent of "Honey Hush," incidentally.
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If the songwriter had read scientist Carl Sagan's essay on Nuclear Winter of WWIII, possibly in the near future closer than we realize--of the utter and complete uber-catastrophic devastating destruction of everything and everyone--this song would not have "happily" in its title.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
If the songwriter had read scientist Carl Sagan's essay on Nuclear Winter of WWIII, possibly in the near future closer than we realize--of the utter and complete uber-catastrophic devastating destruction of everything and everyone--this song would not have "happily" in its title.
Irony - it's like goldie or bronzie, only more pointy.
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Great song but not sure it's one of Paul's. Very close style though.
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I want it to be a Paul song just so people who acronym his song titles can type out WWTWAIHE.
