Back in the days of the Quarry Men, John had sung this old Liverpool tune about a prostitute who robbed her clients until a judge found her guilty and sent her to jail. Being short of material at the Get Back sessions in January of 1969, he revived the song a few times on the 24th while the group was working on McCartney's Two of Us. He even wanted a proper recording of it made on January 31st, the final day of those sessions, but so much time was spent on getting good performances of other songs that the band never got around to it again.
When Glyn Johns was assembling both versions of his Get Back albums, he included the third and final attempt at the song from January 24th, even though it broke down at only thirty-nine seconds. Phil Spector used the same take for the Let it Be album in 1970, placing the song immediately after Let it Be at the end of side one.
The Let it Be...Naked album from 2003 did not completely overlook the song. The first attempt from January 24th appears on the bonus disc Fly on the Wall, though it is edited, thereby lasting not even as long as the version we already know.
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