Mike Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Let It Be - Songfacts Paul with his mother Mary and brother Michael Born Mary Patricia Mohin, at 2 Third Avenue, Fazakerley, Liverpool, on the 29th of September 1909, diagnosed with cancer too late to for treatment, she died on the 31st of October 1956. She was the mother of Paul and Michael McCartney. Just before she died she told a friend: ‘I would love to have seen the boys growing up.’ Mary met Jim McCartney at the McCartney family home at 11 Scargreen Avenue, West Derby. Still a nurse at Walton Hospital, she was staying temporarily with Jim’s newly wed sister Jin and her husband, Harry. She was 31 years old and Jim was 39, the two were married at St Swithin’s Roman Catholic Chapel in Gill Moss, Liverpool. Although Mary had been raised as a strict Roman Catholic, she married Jim, a Protestant, after promising that her children would be baptized Roman Catholics. Both her sons were baptized. Mary was devoted to her sons and had wanted Paul to become a teacher. She was ambitious for both boys, wanting them to get on in the world, and gave Paul elocution lessons to rid him of his Scouse accent. It was just after his mother’s death that Paul took up the guitar, which became an obsession with him. He was later to say: ‘You lose a mother —and you find a guitar.’ When I find myself in times of trouble Mother mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. And in my hour of darkness She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. Let it be, let it be. Whisper words of wisdom, let it be. And when the broken hearted people Living in the world agree, There will be an answer, let it be. For though they may be parted there is Still a chance that they will see There will be an answer, let it be. Let it be, let it be. yeah There will be an answer, let it be. And when the night is cloudy, There is still a light that shines on me, Shine on until tomorrow, let it be. I wake up to the sound of music Mother mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be. Let it be, let it be. There will be an answer, let it be. Let it be, let it be, Whisper words of wisdom, let it be. -Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted October 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 Paul's first child, a daughter was named after his mother Mary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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