Eat at Home (song)

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Album This song officially appears on the Ram LP.

Timeline This song has been officially released in 1971

Timeline This song has been written (or started being written) in 1970 (Paul McCartney was 28 years old)

Song facts

“Eat At Home” is a song from 1971 album “Ram” credited to Paul & Linda McCartney. From Wikipedia:

The song, a standard rock number, features McCartney on lead vocals, electric guitar, bass and drums and Linda McCartney performing backing vocals.
Paul McCartney described the lyrics of “Eat at Home” as “a plea for home cooking – it’s obscene.” Beatle biographer John Blaney described it as fitting within the theme of many of McCartney’s songs of the period, “extolling the virtues of domestic bliss and…the love of a good woman.” Music professor Vincent Benitez also considers the theme to be a celebration of Paul’s domestic bliss with Linda in the wake of the Beatles’ breakup.
“Eat at Home” is in the key of A major. It is a three-chord rock song, with predominant use of the tonic chord of A, the dominant chord of E and the subdominant chord of D. It also employs the leading-tone chord of G in turnaround sections between the verses and the bridge passages. Blaney described the music as being an “upbeat slice of retro-pop” that was influenced by McCartney’s hero Buddy Holly.
Music critic Stewart Mason of AllMusic described it as McCartney’s homage to Buddy Holly, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, also of Allmusic, described it as “a rollicking, winking sex song.” In a contemporary review for RAM, Jon Landau of Rolling Stone described “Eat at Home” as one of two only good songs he enjoyed on the album, also comparing it to Buddy Holly.
Although John Lennon was highly critical of many of the songs on Ram, feeling they were veiled attacks on him, he publicly admitted that he enjoyed this particular song quite a bit.
Although not released as a single in the UK or the US, “Eat at Home” was released as a single in several European countries, South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and reached #7 in the Netherlands and #6 in Norway. Even in the US it received considerable radio airplay without having been released as a single.

“Eat At Home” was the opening song for most concerts of the 1972 Wings Over Europe tour.

Last updated on June 6, 2020

Lyrics

C'mon, little lady
Lady let's eat at home
C'mon, little lady
Lady let's eat at home
Eat at home, eat at home

Bring the love that you feel for me-hee
Into line with the love I see
And in the morning you'll bring to me-hee love

Come on little lady
Lady let's eat in bed
Eat in bed eat in bed

Bring the love that you feel for me-hee
Into line with the love I see
And in the morning you'll bring to me-hee love

C'mon little lady
Lady now don't do that.
C'mon on little lady,
Lady now don't do that do that do that.

Do that to to to too to to to tooo
To to too do that
Oh no