For fans of a band like The Beatles, handwritten lyrics are something close to sacred objects, and extremely rare. Some Beatles fans are lucky just to even get a glimpse of them in museums. Others are fortunate to actually purchase them. Some would even argue that lyrics for, oh let's say Hey Jude for example, should be displayed for all to see, others want to pay almost a million dollars for the only copy.

A couple of days ago Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for Hey Jude sold for $910,000 at auction, reports Mental Floss, and we're not bitter. The measly piece of paper was only estimated to sell between $160,000 and $180,000, at "All Beatles", a live online auction created by Julien's Auctions.

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The famous story behind the song involved McCartney's visit to see John Lennon's son, Julian, in 1968. McCartney went to visit Cynthia Lennon and Julian to see how they were doing in the wake of Cynthia and John's fresh divorce. By that time Lennon had already started his affair with artist Yoko Ono.

At the time of his parents divorce Julian was just five and had hardly even seen his father. But McCartney felt bad about the little boy and went to check up on him, which thus inspired him to write Hey Jules, or as it was latter changed, Hey Jude.

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"I was driving out to John's house after John and Cynthia had got a divorce, and I was just going out to say hello to Cynthia and Julian and I started coming up with these words," McCartney said in an interview for The Beatles Anthology. "In my own mind I was kinda talking to Julian. 'Hey Jules, don't take it bad, take a sad song and make it better, you know it'll be alright. So I kinda got the first sort of idea on the way out there with this 'Hey Jules' as I thought it was going to be called. It seemed a little bit of a mouthful, so I changed it to Jude."

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When McCartney went back into the studio to work on the new song that had popped into his head, he asked John to help him put the finishing touches on it.

"And then I liked the song a lot and I played it to John and Yoko when I'd finished it all, I actually had finished it all but I thought there was a little more to go because there was just one bit of the words which was "the movement you'll need is on your shoulder". And I'm playing and I just look to John and say 'I'll fix that'. He said 'What?' I said, 'Well you know 'the movement you need is on your shoulder', I've used the word shoulder once and anyway it's a stupid expression. It sounds like a parrot, you know, I'll change that'. He said 'You won't, you know'. He said, 'that's the best line in the song!' 'What?' He said, 'I know what it means, 'the movement you need is on your shoulder', it's great'. So that was the great thing about John. Whereas I would have definitely knocked that line out."

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Lennon later said the song was one of McCartney's masterpieces, but also denied having any involvement with actually helping with the song. "I always heard it as a song to me, if you think about it, Yoko's just come to picture," Lennon said in an interview. "He's saying 'Hey Jude', 'Hey John'... But you hear the lines 'chip on your shoulder' and all those things that I always took personally because I was the one with a clip on his shoulder. And 'go out and get her' you know and 'forget everything else' so subconsciously I take it that he was saying 'go ahead' and on a conscious level he didn't want me to go ahead."

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Hey Jude was the firsts of many things, when it was released in September, 1968. According to SongFacts.com, it was the first Beatles' song to be released on The Beatles new recording label Apple Records, it was The Beatles first longest single, and in fact the first longest song to be released as a single. It was also the first long song to get a lot of airplay on the radio as well. The song hit number one in 12 countries by the end of 1968 and sold six million copies, and eventually 10 million in the U.S. alone.

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Hey Jude stayed at the top of the Billboard's Hot 100 chart for nine weeks and broke the all-time record for longest run at the top of the charts. It is always at the top of the list of the best Beatles songs, and best rock songs of all time. McCartney still plays it as the last song at his concerts and everyone sings along.

So it's really no surprise that maybe the most famous Beatles' song sold for $910,000. Some fans even argue that Hey Jude is the best song ever written, and now one lucky person, who hopefully treats it good, has the only written copy in existence. So let it in and let it out...breathe... because you'll probably never get to see it.

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