Junk - Paul McCartney Ukulele Cover

I don't like the lyrics of this song, but the melody is very beautiful. Few people know this song, which was released on Paul McCartney's debut studio album "McCartney" (1970). I hope you like this arrangement as much as I did.

"Junk" is a song written by English musician Paul McCartney. He wrote the song in 1968 with the Beatles while the band was studying Transcendental Meditation in India. After the band's return from India, he recorded the song as a demo at Kinfauns, George Harrison's home, before sessions for The Beatles (also known as "the White Album") took place. The Esher demo was eventually released on Anthology 3 in 1996 and on the Super Deluxe Edition of the "White Album" in 2018. After the group's break-up, McCartney recorded the song for inclusion on McCartney.
McCartney wrote "Junk", along with another McCartney track "Teddy Boy", during the Beatles' visit to India in 1968.
The lyrics of "Junk" have McCartney describe numerous contents of a junkyard, including parachutes, army boots, and sleeping bags for two.

I put below parts that McCartney himself wrote about this song in his book "The Lyrics”:
"If I may use a fancy word, the milieu of “Junk” was influenced by the rag-and-bone shop, or junkyard, that was the main setting of Steptoe and Son (a well-known sitcom on the BBC).
That junkyard was as familiar to British audiences in the 1960s and ‘70s as the ranch in Bonanza or the mansion in the Beverly Hillbillies.
The song started, as so many do, with a chord sequence that I liked, and then the melody. I know may sound strange, but the chord at the start of this song actually put me in mind of a scrapyard or the back of a shop. The kind of atmospheric place in which, if I were writing a novel, I’d like to set a scene.
The lyric “bicycles for two” merges into the “sleeping bags for two”. Then there’s the line “Buy, buy, says the sign in the window”, with sounds like one lover saying, “Bye-bye”, and then the other plaintively asking, “Why, why?” Even as “the junk in the yard” demands an explanation for the urge to acquire something, or somebody, new."

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