"Carry That Weight" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road.

Written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it is the seventh and penultimate song in the album's climactic side-two medley.

Music critic Ian MacDonald interpreted the lyrics as an acknowledgement by the group that nothing they would do as individual artists would equal what they had achieved together, and they would always carry the weight of their Beatle past.

[5] McCartney, Harrison, and Ringo Starr recorded 15 takes of the two songs[5] while Lennon was in a hospital recovering from a car accident in Scotland.

[9] According to Ian MacDonald[10] and Mark Lewisohn (who is unsure whether Starr or McCartney played timpani):[11] The Beatles Additional musicians