[skully]

...Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da as a commentary on American neo-colonialism....

and here I always thought this song was just drug induced babble. But then again I grew up in the real world, not in the 60’s. so maybe I missed something groovy in the translation...man.

[KevinB]

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da as a commentary on American neo-colonialism....

Paul has several times said that "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was a phrase a Jamaican friend of his used to use and he simply built a song around the phrase.