"Dig a Pony" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The band recorded the song on 30 January 1969, during their rooftop concert at the Apple Corps building on Savile Row in central London. Composition "Dig a Pony" is in the key of A major and partly in 3/4 time. It was originally called "All I Want Is You". John Lennon said the song was "a piece of garbage", though he expressed similar scorn for many of his songs. It was written for his soon-to-be wife Yoko Ono, and features a multitude of strange, seemingly nonsensical phrases strung together in what Lennon referred to as a Bob Dylan style of lyric. In author Ian MacDonald's description, the lyrics "celebrat[e] countercultural claims that society's old values and taboos were dead, that life was a game and art a free-for-all, and (especially) that words meant whatever the hell one wished them to". "Dig a Pony" was among the first songs the Beatles worked on during day one of their filmed rehearsals for a planned return to live performance, in January 1969. Lennon introduced it to George Harrison soon after arriving at Twickenham Film Studios on 2 January, as the pair ran through their latest songs. Recording "Dig a Pony" was one of the songs on Let It Be recorded at the rooftop concert on 30 January 1969. Kevin Harrington, the band's roadie, held up Lennon's lyrics for him while he sang. It begins with a false start, with Ringo Starr yelling "Hold it!" because he was putting out his cigarette and had both of his drum sticks in his right hand. On the recording, the sound of someone blowing his nose right after Starr's interjection can be heard, which Mark Lewisohn attributes to Lennon. A studio take of the song from 22 January appears on the 1996 Anthology 3 outtakes compilation. The sessions took place at the Beatles' Apple Studio after they had abandoned the filmed rehearsals at Twickenham. When Glyn Johns compiled an album titled Get Back for the band's consideration in 1969, he favoured the 22 January recording of "Dig a Pony" over the rooftop performance. As originally included in the rooftop performance also, the studio recording begins and ends with the line "All I want is ..." When Phil