Honey pie,
Honey pie,
Honey pie,
Honey pie,
Honey pie,
Honey pie,
Honey pie,
Honey pie,
Honey pie,
I love ya.
“Wild Honey Pie” is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (the White Album). Paul McCartney conceived the song in February 1968 while the band was in Rishikesh, India, and recorded it six months later without his bandmates. He later recalled that they were “in an experimental mode” at the time. Less than a minute long, the song consists of the words “honey pie” shrieked repeatedly over a harpsichord, bass drum, and contorted acoustic guitar notes. It is unrelated to “Honey Pie” despite the similar title. In McCartney’s telling, the fate of “Wild Honey Pie” was undecided at first, but Pattie Boyd, George Harrison‘s wife, liked it, and so it was included on the White Album.
The musicologist Alan W. Pollack thought that “[there’s] not much of either here” when discussing the song’s harmony and melody. As for its style, genres ranging from psychedelic folk to blues to “miscellaneous” have been attributed to it.
Music critics generally consider “Wild Honey Pie” an odd, strident, and frivolous song,[a] and some such as Mark Beaumont have ranked it as one of the Beatles’ worst. Within the context of the White Album, however, the song has drawn some support for suiting its unusual aesthetic. The American alternative rock band Pixies often performed “Wild Honey Pie” in their early shows; a live cover was included on their album Pixies at the BBC.