[3] The song's title was used for the 2000 TV movie Two of Us, which depicts a fictionalized version of a 1976 reunion between McCartney and Lennon.

Ian MacDonald suggested that the lyrics (e.g.: "you and I have memories/longer than the road that stretches out ahead" or "you and me chasing paper/getting nowhere") sounded like McCartney was probably addressing Lennon and contractual troubles.

[6] "You Never Give Me Your Money", a different composition by McCartney from the previously released album, but recorded after Let It Be, Abbey Road, also refers to the Beatles' contract with Allen Klein as "funny paper".

[7] An early performance of the song, in a guitar-driven rock style, can be seen in the Let It Be film and later in the documentary series The Beatles: Get Back.

[9] On the Let It Be album, producer Phil Spector added, as a spoken introduction to the song, a remark by Lennon, who says: "'I Dig A Pygmy' by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf-Aids!