I saw it on TikTok after seeing it on Reddit a while back. Of course, I doubted that it was true. Today, I loaded my Audacity sound software and chopped the song “Hey Jude” by The Beatles.

You’ve probably heard of them – they were a band from England who had a few songs back in the day.

Somewhere around the 2:55 – 3:00 minute mark in the song, the allegation was that you could hear Paul McCartney hit a wrong note on the piano and utter “Effing Hell,” using the actual f-bomb. John Lennon said, “Let’s keep it in the song,” so they did, albeit dropped to a lower register.

After snipping the song in Audacity, I could hear it clearly but wanted to be certain, so I overtracked it and isolated it.

You know what? It’s true.

I’d post it here, but I’m sure FB wouldn’t like me using language that many of us hear and use daily.

Paul McCartney wrote the song originally as “Hey Jules,” for John Lennon’s son. John Lennon went so far at one point to call Julian’s birth a drunken mistake.

Ouch. Proof even that icons say and behave stupidly.

So many people adore the song “Hey Jude” without knowing it was inspired by a five-year-old boy whom Paul McCartney loved and feared for as John Lennon abandoned him to start a new life with Yoko Ono.

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