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Blackbird Singing
Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999



Foreword
Introduction by Adrian Mitchell


I PLAYING AT HOME
In Liverpool
Mist the Mind
Figure of Eight
Toy Store
Heart of the Century
Mull of Kintyre
When I'm Sixty-Four
Here Today (Song for John)
Golden Earth Girl
Maybe I'm Amazed

II YESTERDAY
Yellow Submarine
Dinner Tickets
Once Upon a Long Ago
She Came in through the Bathroom Window
"Junk"
Penny Lane
"Ivan"
The Long and Winding Road
The Fool on the Hill
This Is the Way
Carry That Weight
Hey Jude
Yesterday

III FRIENDS AND ENEMIES
Let 'Em In
The Poet of Dumbwoman's Lane
Day with George
Fly by Night
Jerk of All Jerks
The Note You Never Wrote
Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)
49th Fearless Sleep
Masseuse Masseur
Hot as That
Little Willow

IV THE BUSINESS
Band on the Run
Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll
Back in the USSR
Backwards Traveller
Velvet Wave
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Helen Wheels
Monkberry Moon Delight
Black Vulcan
Venus and Mars
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Song We Were Singing

V THE WORLD TONIGHT
The World Tonight
Chasing the Cherry
Was It Really Twenty Years Ago?
Big Boys Bickering
City Park
Moon's a Mandarin
Trouble Is
A Billion Bees in the Borage
Give the Man a Break
Looking for Changes
All Together Now

VI ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE
She's Leaving Home
Lady Madonna
'Soily
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Paperback Writer
Not On
Rocky Raccoon
Lovely Rita
Tchaico
Junior's Farm
Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da
Wedding Invitation
Flaming Pie
Eleanor Rigby

VII STANDING STONE
Standing Stone

VIII HOME TO LOVE
Flying to My Home
Full Moon's Eve
A Man with Children
The Blue Shines Through
Calico Skies
Waterfalls
Pictures in Song
No Rhyme
My Love

IX NOVA
Anti-Alarm Call
Call It a Day
Blessed
Black Jacket
Her Spirit
Meditate
To Find the Joy
Irish Language
Steel
Rocking On!
Dawn Star
She Is...
Lost
To Be Said
Nova
Acknowledgements
Index of Titles


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