Linda Goodman's 1989 PID comments

Thank you JoJo! ;D

It may be my computer, but some of the text shows up a little murky on my screen, so I'll point out the following statements, and comment on the poem.

"After a careful study of several photographs of Paul, taken before and after November, 1966, it was indisputably clear to me that the eyebrows, nose, ears, and eyelids were markedly different in the two 'Pauls'.
No way, in my opinion, could the two men be the same."

"I calculated the original Paul McCartney's horoscope. With the stars strongly supporting the car crash story, I had no honest choice but to agree with Professor Glazier's claims." (that Paul was in a car crash)

The poem she wrote:

"The Puzzlement of 28 IF"

alas and alack, alas and alack, what have we here?
kiss a red carnation black - with one blue tear
double, double, time-track trouble
pick a strawberry four leaf clover
play it backwards, play it backwards, play it over

don't cry, little lass, don't cry
he's still alive......he didn't die
he's writing songs for the three blind mice
and the farmer's wife
did you ever hear such a tale in your life?

step aside girl, and let him pass
walkin' barefoot through the grass
and Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Oh, Hey, hey, Hey!
isn't it groovy, like a Christmas day?
he's still around, in London town
with the farmer's wife and the three blind mice

play it backwards, listen twice...three blind mice
then thank a song of sixpence if you're bright enough to see
bright enough to see....

And Paul
oh, Paul, dear Paul, the gentle one
(see how they run...see how they run?)
sing your Noel songs still sweetly

but do take care now, won't you, Luv?
when they shove up close to hear you
please take caution and beware
of those flash bulbs poppin' near you

for 'tis written on an ancient scroll
that the eyes are the windows of the soul

See how they run
after Paul, the gentle one?
but the eyes, ah yes! the eyes
are the windows of the soul

(end)


I don't know whether Linda Goodman felt that he had been killed in the crash.
She didn't believe that physical death was the end of a person's existence, but it seems to me that she's saying she believed he had continued his physical existance in the poem. Why would she caution him about exploding flashbulbs and close encounters? Unless she was saying this to Faul, which I doubt.