| Walk with You | |
| Cover: | Walk with you promo.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Ringo Starr featuring Paul McCartney |
| Album: | Y Not |
| Released: | 22 December 2009 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Label: | Hip-O Records |
| Producer: | Ringo Starr, Bruce Sugar |
| Chronology: | Ringo Starr |
| Prev Title: | Liverpool 8 |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Wings |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
"Walk with You" is a song by Ringo Starr, released as a single from his 2010 studio album Y Not. It features fellow former Beatle Paul McCartney on backing vocals and bass. The track was not originally conceived as a collaboration with McCartney, who originally only planned to play bass on "Peace Dream."[1]
The song was also used as Starr's entry on the iTunes exclusive 4-track Beatles EP , released in 2014.
In a promotional video, Starr said that "Walk with You" was originally intended to be a "gospelly" song.[2] Starr called Van Dyke Parks and asked him to collaborate on writing a "God song," but Parks said he did not write about God. They reworked the melody and completed the track as a song about the power of friendship.[2] [3] During the recording of "Peace Dream," Starr played Paul McCartney several tracks he had completed for Y Not. McCartney developed the "trailing" duet in the melody of "Walk with You."[2]