“One After 909”

We’ll do some album cuts and B-sides over the next few days, starting with this track from the Beatles’ rooftop concert for the “Let It Be” LP. It’s one of the first songs John wrote in his teenage days. The girl being wooed missed her train, so she took the one after the 9:09. The boys first recorded this in 1963 at the same session as “From Me To You” but shelved it. They needed a song here, and this was a roots rocker that fit the album’s concept.