Sorry Bob, can't place the phrase.

But I do know that The Boxtops' opening line on their big hit was:

"Gimme a chicken or an aeroplane..."

Phil.

On 24 May 2007, at 19:23, Bob Hutton wrote:

> "Bob, I think in Sir Macca's defence it's actually:
>
> "And if this ever-changing world in which we're living ... "
> In light of the revelation that what I interpreted as poor grammar 
> from Macca was actually a mondegreen (is that the word?) on my part, I 
> will quietly don my idiot cap and go stand in the corner.
>
> But not before offering up my favourite clunky lyric:
>
> "Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude" ... so eloquent, so 
> wordy, so ... erm ... 6th form schoolboy poetry.
> Can you name the guilty party?  No cheating now ...
>
> B
>
>