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Blackbird
Composer: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

Blackbird was performed twice by the Grateful Dead in the Summer of 1988. The song has also been performed by The Dead and Ratdog. Blackbird was played by Bob Weir and Lukas Nelson on October 18, 2012 at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, CA.

Though credited as usual to Lennon and McCartney the song was written by Paul McCartney. Supposedly inspired by reading newspaper accounts of US race riots in mid-1968 OR by a blackbird singing the tune outside his bedroom window OR .....

Only McCartney plays on the Beatles recording of the song.



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Beatles and related

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Other recordings

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