01-10-2011, 12:00 AM
Yes, thanks for that...I thought McCartey just sang it, because at times one Beatle would write a song and the other sing it depending on whose voice they thought best suited the song I guess.
I researched it to see exactly which Beatle wrote it and it was Paul...
"Paul McCartney wrote this about the civil rights struggle for blacks after reading about race riots in the US. He penned it in his kitchen in Scotland not long after Little Rock, when the federal courts forced the racial desegregation of the Arkansas capital's school system. McCartney told Mojo magazine October 2008: "We were totally immersed in the whole saga which was unfolding. So I got the idea of using a blackbird as a symbol for a black person. It wasn't necessarily a black 'bird', but it works that way, as much as then you called girls 'birds'; the Everlys had had Bird Dog, so the word 'bird' was around. 'Take these broken wings' was very much in my mind, but it wasn't exactly an ornithological ditty; it was purposely symbolic."
Well, still an omen for me as I've been dreaming I am a black person lately, lol. Just posted about it yesterday. I still like George Harrison's taking the other Beatles to India mysticism...he was the "quiet Beatle".
I researched it to see exactly which Beatle wrote it and it was Paul...
"Paul McCartney wrote this about the civil rights struggle for blacks after reading about race riots in the US. He penned it in his kitchen in Scotland not long after Little Rock, when the federal courts forced the racial desegregation of the Arkansas capital's school system. McCartney told Mojo magazine October 2008: "We were totally immersed in the whole saga which was unfolding. So I got the idea of using a blackbird as a symbol for a black person. It wasn't necessarily a black 'bird', but it works that way, as much as then you called girls 'birds'; the Everlys had had Bird Dog, so the word 'bird' was around. 'Take these broken wings' was very much in my mind, but it wasn't exactly an ornithological ditty; it was purposely symbolic."
Well, still an omen for me as I've been dreaming I am a black person lately, lol. Just posted about it yesterday. I still like George Harrison's taking the other Beatles to India mysticism...he was the "quiet Beatle".