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Back In The USSR

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This song appears as the opening track on the Beatles' 1968 double album titled The Beatles. Paul McCartney wrote it and it was credited to the Lennon-McCartney partnership. The composition serves as a parody of two earlier songs: Chuck Berry's "Back in the U.S.A." and the Beach Boys' "California Girls".

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The lyrics invert the patriotic message found in Berry's original song, with the narrator character experiencing happiness upon returning to the Soviet Union rather than the United States.