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I'll take "Hey Jude"...

Hey jude, don’t make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.

Hey jude, don’t be afraid.
You were made to go out and get her.
The minute you let her under your skin,
Then you begin to make it better.

And anytime you feel the pain, hey jude, refrain,
Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.

..over "I am the Walrus" anyday.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I’m crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.

Mister city policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like lucy in the sky, see how they run.

(Ironically, Hey Jude was written to encourage Julian Lennon to cheer up after Yoko broke up his parents' marriage)

"...Ironically, Hey Jude was written to encourage Julian Lennon to cheer up after Yoko broke up his parents' marriage..."

I agree that it's ironic, however, IMHO, John Lennon was such a personal scumbag, I'm quite certain Yoko didn't break up John's marriage to Cynthia at all--it was Lennon's actions and his alone which caused his marriage to fail.

John was into any and every "Next Big Thing", including drugs of any and all kinds, TM, Scream Therapy, Witchcraft, and anything else that the glitterati dreamed up (not to mention he was supposedly a terrible philanderer far before the screech owl Yoko involved herself with him.)

Don't get me wrong, when he was tempered and aided by McCartney and George Martin, John Lennon was indeed IMHO one of the greatest pop/rock singer/songwriters of all time. I love his Beatle music, across the Beatle spectrum.

But most of his post-Beatle shit sucks so profusely, you almost can't listen to it (and Yoko was his main influence--to place blame where it belongs). True, his melody on "Imagine" is quite lovely, but the lyrics are vomitous, anti-God liberal-spew. "Beautiful Boy" was also very pretty. "Across the Universe" and "Julia" in his Beatle years were gorgeous melodies too, proving that Lennon was quite capable of writing great melodies. And Paul was also quite capable of writing meaningful, insightful lyrics.

Each one needed the other terribly (and both needed George, Ringo, and George Martin), but Paul solo so greatly exceeds John solo. Pretension, thy post-Beatle name was Lennon.

Just MHO, remember!