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Wren, Jenny

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"Jenny Wren"

Single by Paul McCartney

from the album
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

Released

21 November 2005

Format

7", CD, Maxi-CD

Recorded

2003 - 2005

Genre

Rock

Length

3:47 (album version)
2:09 (radio edit)

Label

Parlophone

Producer(s)

Nigel Godrich

Peak chart positions

#22 (UK Singles Chart)

Paul McCartney singles chronology

"Fine Line"
(2005)

"Jenny Wren"
(2005)

"This Never Happened Before"
(2006)

"Jenny Wren" is a song from Paul McCartney's 2005 album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. It was released 21 November 2005 as the second single from the album in the United Kingdom (see 2005 in British music). It was written in Los Angeles, and is about a character of the same name from Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend. It also refers to an English bird called wren, which is reported to be McCartney's favourite. Paul McCartney wrote the tune in the same sort of "fingerpicking" style found in "Blackbird", "Mother Nature's Son" (The Beatles "White Album") and "Calico Skies" (Flaming Pie). The song earned a nomination for the 2007 Grammy Awards, in the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance category, which it failed to win.

The solo is played on an Armenian woodwind instrument, called duduk.