The Beatles 'merged songs'.

by that I'm referring to cases when it's a case of 2 distinct songs merged together. Sometimes it's a bridge or an outro, but it's distinctly Paul or John.

The ones that I can identify(lead songwriter in parens):

We Can Work it Out(McCartney) - Paul does the verses, chorus, John's the bridge(life is very short). This is the prototype of how they did these. Whoever wrote the part sang lead.

A Day in the Life(Lennon) - Paul's famous bridge inserted right in the middle, 'woke up fell out of bed...'

Cry Baby Cry(Lennon) - The outro is a Paul snippet "Can You Take Me Back"

You Never Give Me Your Money(McCartney) - The outro contains John's snippet "1-2-3-4-5-6-7 all good children go to heaven"

I've Got a Feeling(McCartney) - the 2nd half includes John's "Everybody had a hard year"

these are the only distinct cases I could find. I don't include the dozens of truly co-written songs.

 

“Happiness Is A Warm Gun” - John Said is came together from 3 different songs.

 

Dare I say it took Stevie Wonder to make that one swing?!

 

Which is like a miniature version of the medley on side two of Abbey Road (also worth mentioning in this thread).

To the OP, I wouldn't really count Can You Take Me Back as an extension of Cry Baby Cry. It's more of an uncredited interlude.

 

Looks like you covered them all.
So I'll just sat All You Need is Love with the outro to She Loves You.
Not exactly what you were saying but it's worth mentioning since that's all that's left.

 

I s'pose "Day Tripper" would have to qualify if "We Can Work it Out" does.

 

She's Leaving Home
Abbey Road Medley

 

"She Said She Said" was made up of a few different song parts John Lennon had, including once called "When I Was A Boy." George Harrison apparently helped him structure the final version. The Beatles Bible Web site has more details and the quote from Harrison that explains this.

"Baby You're A Rich Man" was created from of an unfinished Lennon song called "One Of The Beautiful People" and an unfinished Paul McCartney piece with the title phrase. Again, the quotes are compiled on a page from The Beatles Bible. This time it's Lennon who is quoted.

 

Nope
There's "Baby you're a rich man". The verses and the chorus are from two different songs.

EDIT: Just like "Celebrated Summer" said

 

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Yellow Submarine is another, the verse written by John ("in the town where I was born..."), the chorus by Paul. Harder to tell who wrote it as Ringo sings it.

Why? We Can Work it Out is made from combining two different separate songs each by Lennon and McCartney, Day Tripper is one song by Lennon/McCartney.


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(And although it may appear to be the inverse of We Can Work It Out, with a 'Paul' bridge in a 'John' song, A Hard Day's Night is NOT one, John wrote it solo.)

 

Yellow Submarine is another example of such a song. McCartney brought in the chorus, and Lennon suggested combining it with a song he'd already been working on (the verses).

 

How about Martha My Dear, which was originally two compositions titled ’Martha My Dear’ and ‘You Silly Girl?’

 

Two of us

 

Not the same, that's just Paul combining 2 snippets to make a full song. I'm talking about when John & Paul combined their sub-songs to make a full song.

 

Again it's Paul combining 2 partial-songs to make a full song. Just songwriting 101.

 

In My Life ?

 

Damn you guys are missing the point! I'm taking about partial songs written separately by John & Paul and then merged into the final product we know! Not co-writes.

 

Free As A Bird

 

Yellow Submarine. John wrote a song which became the verse, Paul wrote the chorus, which is EXACTLY what you ask

 

Hey bulldog.

John wrote the song and Paul merged it with his song of only barking sounds.

 

Have you considered decaf?

 

Michelle is reputedly one of these. John is supposed to have written the "I love you..." refrain to complete the tune.

ETA: Walter Everett cites it from the Playboy interview, and Hunter Davies books.

 

Isn't this the definition of co-writing?

 

Nope. Co-writes are when they were in a music room writing at the same time. Or when one would present what they had to the other and the other one would go off and help finish a refrain/chorus/bridge/outro. This is more a case of 2 completely separately written mini-songs later merged.