You've Got To Hide Your Love Away The Beatles Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney; released on the album "Help!". This Dylan-influenced song (written mainly by John) is among the few Beatles compositions in 3/4 time (which is frequent among Bob Dylan's songs by the way). The song's arrangement is uncommon for an "early" Beatles song; it contains two acoustic guitars (one of them tuned to dropped-D), a bassline that contains hardly anything else but "humming" the root notes of the chords on the downbeats, a low-key percussion track (tambourine, maracas and snare drum played with drum brushes), and most notably flutes in the ending solo, played by professional musician John Scott. The song's verses use the same chord progression as John's earlier (and also Dylan-influenced) song "I'm A Loser". 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