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"Flying to My Home" is a song written by Paul McCartney. It was released as the B-side to the "My Brave Face" single from the album Flowers in the Dirt. The song ended up being placed into the Paul McCartney lyrics book titled Blackbird Singing numerous years following its initial release. The song is available on the 1993 remastered CD version of Flowers in the Dirt.[1]

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"Flying to My Home"

Single by Paul McCartney

from the album Flowers in the Dirt

A-side

"My Brave Face" (7" and 12")
"Flying to My Home" (12" only)

B-side

"Flying to My Home" (7" only)
"I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday"/"Ain't That a Shame" (12")

Released

8 May 1989 (United Kingdom)
27 May 1989 (United States)

Recorded

5 May 1988 - Hog Hill Mill, East Sussex

Genre

Rock

Label

Capitol Records (US/Canada)
Parlophone

Songwriter(s)

Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello

Producer(s)

Paul McCartney, Mitchell Froom, Neil Dorfsman

Paul McCartney singles chronology

"Once Upon a Long Ago"
(1987)

"Flying to My Home"
(1989)

"This One"
(1989)

Personnel

Paul McCartney — Lead Vocals, backing vocals, bass, electric and slide guitar, autoharp, organ, percussion, drums
Hamish Stuart — Acoustic and electric guitar, backing vocals
Chris Whitten — Drums, synthesizer, backing vocals
Linda McCartney - Backing Vocals [2]

References

Madinger, Chip; Mark Easter (2000). Eight Arms To Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium. Chesterfield, MO: 44.1 Productions, LP. p. 305. ISBN 0-615-11724-4.
Club Sandwich, n.52, Summer 1989, p.3

Flowers in the Dirt

Songs

Side one	"My Brave Face" "Rough Ride" "You Want Her Too" "Distractions" "We Got Married" "Put It There"
Side two	"Figure of Eight" "This One" "Don't Be Careless Love" "That Day Is Done" "How Many People" "Motor of Love" "Où est le Soleil?"

Non-album single

"Back On My Feet"
"Flying to My Home"
"The First Stone"
"Good Sign"
"Loveliest Thing"
"Party Party"

Outtakes

"The Lovers That Never Were"
"Tommy's Coming Home"
"Twenty Fine Fingers"
"So Like Candy"
"Playboy to a Man"
"I Don't Want to Confess"
"Shallow Grave"
"Mistress and Maid"
"Mambo Me Baby"
"Grand Entrance"
"So Long Blacky"

Elvis Costello
Return to Pepperland
The Paul McCartney World Tour

v t e Paul McCartney singles discography
1970s	"Another Day" / "Oh Woman, Oh Why" (with Linda McCartney) "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" / "Too Many People" (with Linda McCartney) "The Back Seat of My Car" / "Heart of the Country" (with Linda McCartney) "Eat at Home" / "Smile Away" (with Linda McCartney) "Wonderful Christmastime"
1980s	"Coming Up" "Waterfalls" "Temporary Secretary" "Ebony and Ivory" (with Stevie Wonder) "Take It Away" "Tug of War" "The Girl Is Mine" (with Michael Jackson) "Say Say Say" (with Michael Jackson) "Pipes of Peace"/""So Bad" "No More Lonely Nights" "We All Stand Together" "Spies Like Us" "Press" "Pretty Little Head" "Stranglehold" "Only Love Remains" "Once Upon a Long Ago" "Ferry Cross the Mersey" "My Brave Face" / "Flying to My Home" "This One" "Figure of Eight"
1990s	"Put It There" / "Mama's Little Girl" "Birthday" (live) / "Good Day Sunshine" (live) "All My Trials" (live) "Hope of Deliverance" "C'Mon People" "Off the Ground" "Biker Like an Icon" / "Things We Said Today" "A Leaf" (with Anya Alexeyev) "Come Together" (The Smokin' Mojo Filters) "Young Boy" "The World Tonight" "Beautiful Night" "No Other Baby" / "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" "Run Devil Run" (promo)
2000s	"From a Lover to a Friend" "Freedom" / "From a Lover to a Friend" "Hello Goodbye" (promo) "Tropic Island Hum" / "We All Stand Together" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (with U2) "Fine Line" "Jenny Wren" "Really Love You" (Twin Freaks) "This Never Happened Before" (promo) "Dance Tonight" / "Nod Your Head" "Ever Present Past" "Heal the Pain" (with George Michael) "Sing the Changes" (The Fireman) "Walk with You" (with Ringo Starr)
2010s	"(I Want to) Come Home" "My Valentine" "Only Our Hearts" Christmas Kisses: "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" / "Wonderful Christmastime" "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (The Justice Collective) "New" "Queenie Eye" "Only One" (with Kanye West) "FourFiveSeconds" (with Rihanna & Kanye West) "All Day" (with Kanye West) "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" (with Timo Maas & James Teej) "I Don't Know" / "Come On to Me" "Fuh You" "Who Cares" "Get Enough"
Category

Paul McCartney

Paul "Wix" Wickens
Rusty Anderson
Brian Ray
Abe Laboriel Jr.

Studio albums

McCartney Ram Thrillington McCartney II Tug of War Pipes of Peace Give My Regards to Broad Street Press to Play Снова в СССР Flowers in the Dirt Off the Ground Flaming Pie Run Devil Run Driving Rain Chaos and Creation in the Backyard Memory Almost Full Kisses on the Bottom New Egypt Station McCartney III
with Wings	Wild Life Red Rose Speedway Band on the Run Venus and Mars Wings at the Speed of Sound London Town Back to the Egg
The Fireman	Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest Rushes Electric Arguments
Classical	Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio Standing Stone Working Classical Ecce Cor Meum Ocean's Kingdom