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Blackbird: Lesson #5



Blackbird  
~The Beatles

 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.


I learned something last night as I was dining with a good friend from high school.  Her daughter recently returned from a music festival, Bonnaroo.  Paul McCartney was a headliner.  He sang and told stories of the Beatles songs.  When he spoke of Blackbird, he mentioned that it was in response the the American civil rights stuggles of the 60s.  It was the Beatles' way of showing support across the bong.  The blackbird symbolizing the blacks in America.



We ate at Blu.  The Boji Bay Fun House: Pavilion contains the slide, barrel and sugar bowl from the Fun House.  When I was growing up, my grandparents would take us to the Fun House every summer.  I was disappointed tonight when the sign said the slide was "broke".  Talking to our server, we learned that "broke" was another word for working on insurance technicalities.  

Comments

LH said…
What does this slide actually do? I'd like to learn more about that.

I knew this about Blackbird. I was pretty much a Beatlemaniac for a long time, after they broke up.

It's one of my all time fave songs.
10:54 AM
Mary M. said…
It's merely a big slide. One goes down with a rug. As a child, all three of these were in the Fun House in Okoboji. The sugar bowl spun around. We used to try to play "king of the mountain" with the middle part. The barrel also spins and one attempts to walk through it. The slide is the only one they're going to let people use (or they say they are).
11:33 AM
Sarah Gardner said…
That is super cool. I never knew that, and I really like that song.
7:28 PM
KC said…
One of my students wrote a wonderful essay on Blackbird this year, and I loved learning that about the song.
3:16 PM
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