What does John Lennon really say at the end of “Strawberry Fields Forever”—“cranberry sauce”, “Im very bored”, “I buried Paul”…or something else?
John Lennon himself claimed he said “cranberry sauce.” On outtakes of SFF, you can quite clearly hear the words. But if that’s not enough, listen to his writing partner, the inimitable Macca: (From “The Beatles In Their Own Words”): Paul: That wasn’t “I buried Paul” at all, that was John saying “cranberry sauce”. It was the end of ‘Strawberry Fields’. That’s John’s humour. John would say something totally out of synch, like ‘cranberry sauce’. If you don’t realise that John’s apt to say ‘cranberry sauce’ when he feels like it, then you start to hear a funny little word there, and you think “Aha!
