Child of Nature

In Rishikesh, the Beatles attended a lecture by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi about a "son of the mother nature". This inspired both Paul McCartney and John Lennon to write songs about the same subject. Both were demoed at George Harrison's Esher home in May of 1968. The demo featured Lennon's double-tracked vocal and an acoustic guitar. McCartney's composition "Mother Nature's Son" was selected for The Beatles (The White Album), while Lennon's song "Child of Nature" was not.And rightly so, I might add; Lennon's lyrics are as insincere as they are silly ('I was dreaming more or less...'). Lennon must have liked the melody, since he contined to play it, al the way through the Let It Be sessions to Imagine. There he updated the lyrics into Jealous Guy. Unfortunately, still as insincere and silly as 'Child of Nature' ("I was feeling insecure, you might not love me anymore'), it must rank as one of Lennon's poorest lyrics. Now you can compare Child of Nature and Jealous Guy yourself: for the first time, a full production of Child of Nature, based on Roxy Music's cover of 1981.