Chains
Goffin/King

 

Lyrics:
Chains, my baby's got me locked up in chains
And they ain't the kind
that you can see
Woh, it's chains of love
got a hold on me, yeah
pa-lum-pa-lum-pa-lum-pa

Chains, well I can't break away from there chains
Can't run around
'cause I'm not free
Woh, these chains of love
Won't let me be, yeah

I wanna tell you pretty baby
I think you're fine
I'd like to love you
But, darling, I'm imprisoned by these

Chains, my baby's got me locked up in chains
And they ain't the kind
that you can see
Woh, it's chains of love
got a hold on me, yeah

Please believe me when I tell you
your lips are sweet
I'd like to kiss them
But, I can't break away from all these

Chains, my baby's got me locked up in chains
And the ain't the kind
that you can see
Woh, it's chains of love
got a hold on me, yeah

Chains, chains of love
Chains of love, chains of love 		Availability:
Please Please Me
Introducing The Beatles
The Early Beatles

Lead Singer: John/Paul/George

Recording: 1/16/63 (BBC), 2/11/63, 4/1/63 (BBC), 6/17/63 (BBC), 9/3/63 (BBC)
Mixing: 2/25/63
Length: 2:21
Take: 1

What Goes On? Anomalies

0:30
Reported as "bad sibilance on the word Chains", this has possibly been fixed in some mixes. Sibilance is that nasty "SSsshh" that you get on some 's' sounds. Unfortunately, the whole song seems to have lost it's 's' sounds, maybe this is why. "Chain. My baby got me locked up in chain" (Mono CD mix)
0:51
Faint click here, maybe a guitar tone switch flipping?
0:59-1:14
Rhythm guitar breaks up badly - more obvious on stereo than mono
1:27
John - "S'at enough?/"S'at the rhythm?" * NEW * Possibly this is someone (suggested as "from the booth", although we shouldn't be hearing them!) commenting on 0:59-1:14, the rhythm guitar breakup.
 

Notes:

Written by the outstanding song writing team of Goffin and King, this song was originally recorded on November 11, 1962 by The Cookies. They were an R&B trio from New York that had a varying membership. One of its members was Ethel "Earl-Jean" McCrea who later went onto a solo career. The Cookies also did backup work for Neil Sedaka, Carole King and Little Eva. They eventually became the backup trio for Ray Charles known as The Raeletts. The Beatles recorded this song on February 11, 1963.

 

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Four BBC broadcasts: 1/25/63 on Here We Go, 5/13/63 on Side By Side, 6/25/63 on Pop Goes The Beatles and 9/17/63 on Pop Goes The Beatles.