I Lost My Little Girl (1956)
This was the first song that he ever wrote. The year was 1956, and Paul was only 14 years old. The singer-songwriter was just learning how to play guitar on his Framus Zenith acoustic guitar, which he still owns today.
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According to an interview with GQ magazine, McCartney says that he only knew four chords at the time: G, G7, C, and an F. He used those four chords to make up what we now know today as “I Lost My Little Girl.” People often ask McCartney if the song is about losing his mother, but, according to the article, he says that he doesn’t know: “I certainly didn’t think it was at the time, but it could have been.”