A Ballad

She’s Leaving Home

By The Beatles

A Ballad-Definition

a. A narrative (( עלילתי/ poem, often of סיפורי folk origin( עממי It is often ( מקורsung(music), and composed in short simple stanzas(בתים) .

b. A popular song especially of a romantic or sentimental ((רגשיnature.

"She's Leaving Home"

Backgrounda Lennon–McCartney song, released in 1967 on The Beatles album 

. ' Sgt Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band .McCartney wrote and sang the song and Lennon the chorus.( (פיזמון

Paul McCartney:

John and I wrote 'She's Leaving Home‘ together. It was my inspiration((השראה. We'd seen a story in the newspaper about a young girl who'd left home and not been found.That was enough to give us a story line. John, he was doing the parents' view (( מבט in נקודתa Greek Chorus(( יוונית We gave her most of' : מקהלהour lives, we gave her everything money could buy.'

The True Story

The newspaper story McCartney mentioned was about a girl named Melanie Coe. Although McCartney invented((המציא most of the content ((תוכן in the song, Coe, who was 17 at the time, claims((טוענת that most of it was accurate((מדויק.She left in the afternoon while her parents were at work, while the girl in the song leaves early in the morning as her parents sleep. Coe was found ten days later When she returned home, she was pregnant and had an abortion.