Redo Pop Song 209 of 500 'Blackbird' The Beatles 1968

Redo Pop Song 209 of 500 'Blackbird' The Beatles 1968

My first version on Yamaha digital acoustic piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8izmMONJPc

McCartney has said that the lyrics were inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, and alternatively by racial tension in the United States.

McCartney explained t the guitar accompaniment for "Blackbird" was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's Bourrée in E minor,

I had been doing some [poetry readings] in the last year or so because I've got a poetry book out called Blackbird Singing, and when I would read "Blackbird", I would always try and think of some explanation to tell the people …

In 2018, McCartney further elaborated on the song's meaning, explaining that "blackbird" should be interpreted as "black girl" in the context of the civil rights troubles in southern 1960s US.

The lyrics have invited similarly varied interpretations – as a nature song, a message in support of the Black Power movement, or a love song. Writing in the 1990s, Ian MacDonald noted the theory that "Blackbird" was intended as "a metaphor for the black civil rights struggle",

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