Editing Yesterday (song) (section)

===Resemblance to other songs===
In 2001, Ian Hammond speculated that McCartney subconsciously based "Yesterday" on [[Ray Charles]]' version of [[Hoagy Carmichael]]'s "[[Georgia on My Mind]]". Hammond concluded his article by saying that, despite the similarities, "Yesterday" is a "completely original and individual [work]".{{sfn|Hammond|2001}}

In July 2003, British [[musicology|musicologists]] stumbled upon superficial similarities between the lyric and rhyming schemes of "Yesterday" and [[David Whitfield]]'s, [[Frankie Laine]]'s, and [[Nat King Cole]]'s "[[Answer Me, My Love]]"; originally a German song by [[Gerhard Winkler (composer)|Gerhard Winkler]] and [[Fred Rauch]] called ''Mütterlein'', it was a number 1 hit for Laine on the [[UK singles chart|UK Singles Chart]] in 1953 as "Answer Me, O Lord", leading to speculation that the song had influenced McCartney. McCartney's publicists denied any resemblance between "Answer Me, My Love" and "Yesterday".{{sfn|BBC News|2003}}  "Yesterday" begins with the lines: "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they're here to stay." In its second stanza, "Answer Me, My Love" has the lines: "You were mine yesterday. I believed that love was here to stay. Won't you tell me where I've gone astray".