Friday night arrives without a suitcase
Sunday morning creeping like a nun
Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlegs

Tuesday afternoon is never ending
Wednesday morning papers didn't come
Thursday night your stocking needed mending

inevitably.

was their ability to make songs about the most mundane, banal things - and how we projected so much more meaning into each and every one of them!

The only thing I have ever seen come close to this? That jackass in the White House today!

You're right about that thing in our White House

as a song about a struggling single mother who may be living "on the edge", trying to keep it together for herself and her child/children

But, like many Beatles songs, it's entirely possible that it has a double meaning.

Just thinking they snuck in a reference to something in pop culture. Part of the Beatles’ humor, like this two meanings of “see how they run” (children/stockings)

They’ve referred to other songs/artists elsewhere, e.g., “Dylan’s Mr. Jones” in “yer blues” or musically, e.g., The Beach Boys in “back in the ussr”

reading trivia about The Beatles....

... https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-These-Years-Extended-Special/dp/1408704781/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517856868&sr=8-1&keywords=lewisohn

Only 1700 pages. Oh, btw, it's just the first part -- to the end of 1962.

I already own the first version (which was half this size), and I'm crazy enough to consider getting this one, despite the price. Well, the next part won't be out until 2020...

-- Mal