"[3] McCartney recalled little of its writing, later describing it as a filler track: "Not one of the better songs but they did a job, they were very handy for albums or B-sides.

[7] The song's second verse draws from a religious motto hung in Lennon's childhood home with his aunt Mimi Smith.

[8] Lennon himself would parody the lines in the story "Silly Norman" from his 1965 book A Spaniard in the Works:[9] Author Kenneth Womack also suggests that the line "trying to get to you" was in reference to Elvis Presley's 1956 song "Tryin' to Get to You", which had also inspired McCartney's early composition "In Spite of All the Danger".

The session was held in EMI's Studio Two with George Martin producing and Norman Smith and Ken Scott engineering.

[19] The American Christian rock band Jacob's Trouble covered the song for their 1989 debut album Door into Summer.