Blackbird Lyrics



Lennon/McCartney


Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

Blackbird fly Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird fly Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

 
Lead Singer: Paul

Recording: 6/11/68
Mixing: 6/11/68, 10/13/68
Length: 2:18
Take: 32

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Right at the very start on the White Album, someone says "play" in a high pitched voice. * NEW * Graeme Jamieson points out that this should be on the end of I'm So Tired and is only here due to poor mastering when making the CD.
Paul McCartney wrote this about the civil rights struggle for blacks after reading about race riots in the US.
Only 3 things were recorded: Paul's voice, his acoustic guitar, and his tapping foot. Birds were dubbed in later.
One of 5 Beatles songs McCartney performed on his Wings Over America tour in 1976.
Blackbird Singing is the title of a book of poems McCartney wrote.
Brad Mehldau recorded an instrumental jazz version of this in 1997.
In 2002, The Doves covered this on the soundtrack to the TV show Roswell.
 
The White Album Lyrics   

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