One After 909 (Original 1963 Edit) by The Beatles
“Paul McCartney later explained how One After 909 was an attempt to write an American railroad song in the style of their musical heroes. "It has great memories for me of John and I trying to write a bluesy freight-train song. There were a lot of those songs at the time, like Midnight Special, Freight Train, Rock Island Line, so this was the One After 909; she didn’t get the 909, she got the one after it! It was a tribute to British Rail, actually. No, at the time we weren’t thinking British, it was much more the Super Chief from Omaha." Paul McCartney”
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Paul McCartney later explained how One After 909 was an attempt to write an American railroad song in the style of their musical heroes.
"It has great memories for me of John and I trying to write a bluesy freight-train song. There were a lot of those songs at the time, like Midnight Special, Freight Train, Rock Island Line, so this was the One After 909; she didn’t get the 909, she got the one after it! It was a tribute to British Rail, actually. No, at the time we weren’t thinking British, it was much more the Super Chief from Omaha."
Paul McCartney
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