John Lennon Instagram – NORWEGIAN WOOD (THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN). 🔴 ‘Norwegian Wood’ is my song completely. It was about a little affair I’d been having. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn’t want my wife Cyn to know that there really was something going on outside of the household, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair. But in such a smokescreen way that you couldn’t tell whether it was real or it was another Beatle story. I don’t know how I got to ‘Norwegian Wood’ – the actual title. It was the first sitar used on a pop record and I specifically asked George to play the sitar on the record. NORWEGIAN WOOD (THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN). I once had a girl Or should I say she once had me She showed me her room Isn’t it good Norwegian wood She asked me to stay And she told me to sit anywhere So I looked around And I noticed there wasn’t a chair I sat on a rug Biding my time drinking her wine We talked until two And then she said, ‘It’s time for bed’ She told me she worked in the morning And started to laugh I told her I didn’t And crawled off to sleep in the bath And when I awoke I was alone This bird had flown So I lit a fire isn’t it good Norwegian wood