Speaking of "When We Was Fab" . . .

George's 1987 song, "When We Was Fab" that I mentioned in the last post has several interesting Paul references.

George starts the song alluding to marijuana-- (". . . Grass was green, woke up in a daze . . . ".)

He progresses to 1966 with a reference to his song, "Taxman"-- (Back when income tax was all we had . . ." .)

The next verses are:  "Caressers fleeced you in the morning light/ Casualties at dawn."  According to my forays into definitions at British dictionary websites, the word casualty means a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.

The song goes on to use two U.S. slang words:  fuzz (police) and buzz (an altered state of mind from using a drug.)

All this suggesting the two B/Featle songs, "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"--("Climb in the back with your head in the clouds and you're gone..." and "A Day In The Life"--(He blew his mind out in a car . . .") because George says the police would have got to Paul but apparently he died in an accident--deliberate on his or somebody else's part or otherwise.

Later on in the song, George references Bob Dylan's 1965 song, "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" that has the lyric line--"The vagabond who's rapping at the door is standing in the clothes that you once wore":  Paul's replacement.

So Paul's memory haunted George all his life and the continued theme in Beatle songs of death and replacement ran unabated from 1967-on.