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# [Amazing Music - "Blackbird" by the Beatles](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/articles/amazing-music-blackbird-by-the-beatles)

 Written by [Tim McCarthy](https://blog.thebusinessofgood.org/author/tim-mccarthy) | Jan 3, 2016 4:35:00 PM

Editors Note: *My still-dear friend, John Zingg, and I played and sang this song (and many others) for spending cash in college and so it has always had a special place in my heart. But it became more when I learned recently that McCartney actually wrote it as a metaphor for the African-American struggle that was gaining ground at the time he wrote this in the late 1960s. The words now make the simple, lovely guitar even more beautiful. *

 Favorite lyric: “You’ve been only waiting for this moment to arrive.”

[ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0025KVLU6/?tag=mentalfloss0a-20](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0025KVLU6/?tag=mentalfloss0a-20)

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