"Blackbird" gets consistently high marks by critics and Beatles lovers. It is certainly a lovely melody by Paul. Can you imagine it using a harpsichord? Bach could have written this song. Amazing.
"McCartney was inspired to write this while in Scotland as a reaction to racial tensions escalating in America in the spring of 1968, and (according to Sony/ATV Songs LLC 1968) McCartney stated that he had a black woman in mind when he wrote the song ("bird" being British slang for a woman)."
If there is anything that the Beatles hated as much as they hated war, it was racial bigotry. They loved the black recording artists of the 1950s and 1960s, and were dumbfounded by racial prejudice in America. Once Paul was enjoying watching some kids playing in a schoolyard in a black neighborhood in Manhattan, and was unceremoniously accosted with a racial epithet and advised to move on down the line. Entering a convenience store, he complained to a man working the cash register. The man looked closely at him and said, "Aren't you the guy who wrote "Let It Be"?
PS: All quotes in posts by Hector Diego are from Wikipedia.
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