Lyrics to The
Maharishi Song:
John: Well, let me tell you something about the Maharishi camp,
in Rishikesh. There were one or two attractive women there, but mainly,
looked like, ya know, school teachers or somethin'. And the whole damn
camp was fine on the ones in the bathing suits. And they're supposed to
be meditatin'. And there's this cowboy there called Tom who plays
cowboys on T.V. And my, did the Beatle-wives go for him in a big
way....! I wondered what it was - it was his tight leather belt, his
jeans, and his dumb eyes. They seem to love dumb eyes 'cause all they
see is dumb eyes.
Yoko: What's wrong with his eyes? You have good
sight.
John: Me? I took it for real. I wrote 600
songs - about how I feel. I felt like dying, and crying, and committing
suicide, but I felt creative and I said: "What the hell's this got to do with
what that silly little man's talking about?" But he did charm me in a way
because he was funny - sort of cuddly, like a sort of - you
know...
Yoko: Like a teddy bear....
John: ...Little daddy with a beard telling stories of Heaven as
if he knew. You could never pin him down - but he often spread rumors through
his right hand man who used to be with the CIA and told about the planes he
saved. How Maharishi came through the storm - on a plane. And the
pilot was gettin' worried they couldn't land. When Maharishi looked up
and with one foul look - according to the man who works for him, everything
was OK and they landed! After that I thought, lies. But who was
that woman who looks like Jean Symmonds who keeps going to him for private
interviews? She musta been about 40 - 45. Kept talkin' about her
husband 'cause he wasn't there. Always tryin' to get a private audience with
the Maharishi and he kept refusing. I knew only one thing. He
must of had some of his own. It musta been that little Indian
piece. She came with the tailor and could sit at his feet and that was
one in 500. The rest had to wait like good American people, in lines, to
see the master walking on the petals who lived in a million dollar stecketo
house overlookin' the Himalayas. He looked
holy.
Yoko: But he was a sex maniac...
John: I couldn't say that, but he certainly
wasn't...
Yoko: Holy.
John: In the true sense of the word that
is...!
