Helter Skelter T-Shirt

Helter Skelter

‘Helter Skelter’ written by Paul McCartney, but as with all Beatles songs was credited to Lennon/McCartney, was recorded by The Beatles on 1968 The White Album.

The extract reads
‘When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and turn
and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Yeah, yeah, yeah’

In British English
A helter skelter is an amusement park ride with a slide built in a spiral around a high tower. Users climb the tower and slide down usually on a mat.

In American English
Carelessly hurried and confused or haphazard. Turmoil, pell-mell.

Controversially it was one of several White Album compositions taken by Charles Manson as elaborate prophecy of a war to arise from racial tensions between blacks and whites.