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Official Paul McCartney web page: “Back in the .“ is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that opens their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the “White Album“). It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The song is a rock and roll parody of Chuck Berry’s “Back in the .“ and the Beach Boys’ “California Girls“. Its lyrics transpose Berry’s patriotic sentiments about the United States to Communist Russia, as the narrator expresses his relief at returning home to the Soviet Union, or more formally the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). McCartney said he wrote it as “a kind of Beach Boys parody“ based around “Back in the .“ He added: “I just liked the idea of Georgia girls and talking about places like the Ukraine as if they were California, you know? It was also hands across the water, which I’m still conscio