 Some vocalising by Lennon is faintly audible at the end of the song , picked up as leakage onto one of the drum microphones ( close listening shows Lennon making other comments to Ringo ) . In the " Paul is Dead " hoax these were taken to be Lennon saying " I buried Paul . " In 1974 , McCartney said , " That wasn 't ' I buried Paul ' at all – that was John saying ' cranberry sauce ' … That 's John 's humour … If you don 't realise that John 's apt to say cranberry sauce when he feels like it , then you start to hear a funny little word there , and you think , ' Aha ! ' " Shortly before his death in 1980 , Lennon expressed dissatisfaction with the final version of the song , saying it was " badly recorded " and accusing McCartney of subconsciously sabotaging the recording . 
