The lyric sheet sold for nine-times its estimated sale price. 

Prior to the sale, Julien’s Auctions music specialist Jason Watkins had described Mr McCartney’s scribbled lyrics as ‘very rare and valuable’.

He said: “It’s obviously a very iconic song that everyone’s familiar with. These handwritten lyrics were used in the studio as a guide when they were recording it.”

The lyric sheet was not the only Beatles memorabilia to sell for top dollar.  A vintage bass drumhead with The Beatles’ logo which was used during the band’s first North American tour in 1964 sold at the auction for $200,000.

The lyrics were among more than 250 items of Beatles memorabilia up for grabs in the online action hosted on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the bank’s breakup, The Guardian reports.

A drawing by John Lennon and wife Yoko Ono called Bagism, a term they coined to satirise stereotyping, sold for $93,750, while an ashtray used by the Fab Four’s drummer Ringo Starr at the Abbey Road recording studios in London fetched $32,500. Similarly, the wooden stage of the small Liverpool venue where the band performed before they rocketed to fame went for $25,600.

The sale had been due to take place online and at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, New York, but it was made online-only due to the coronavirus pandemic.