Walk with You

{{Infobox song

| name = Walk with You

| cover = Walk with you promo.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Ringo Starr
featuring Paul McCartney

| album = Y Not

| released = 22 December 2009

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Rock

| length =

| label = Hip-O Records

| writer = Richard Starkey, Van Dyke Parks

| producer = Ringo Starr, Bruce Sugar

| chronology = Ringo Starr

| prev_title = Liverpool 8

| prev_year = 2007

| next_title = Wings

| next_year = 2012

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Paul McCartney

| type = single

| prev_title = "Sing the Changes"
(The Fireman)

| prev_year = 2008

| title = Walk with You

| year = 2009

| next_title = Meat Free Monday

| next_year = 2009

}}

}}

"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."{{cite web|title=Walk With You by Ringo Starr Songfacts|publisher=Songfacts|access-date=January 19, 2010|url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=18266}}

The song was also used as Starr's entry on the iTunes exclusive 4-track Beatles EP 4: John Paul George Ringo, released in 2014.

Composition

In a promotional video, Starr said that "Walk with You" was originally intended to be a "gospelly" song.{{cite web|title=Ringo Starr interview |publisher=Amazon.co.uk|access-date=January 23, 2010|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002WBYDJE}} 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.{{cite web|title=Ringo Starr Declares "Y Not"! |publisher=PR Newswire|access-date=November 10, 2011|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ringo-starr-declares-y-not-70556107.html}} 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."

Personnel

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