Bill,
I think the poem is as it is. I'd leave it.
And, yes, I'd heard that about Sir Paul's ditty, but our blackbirds,
at least, do at certain times of the year, sing a very sweet night
song. Spookily, a couple of times I'd been quietly playing a solo
piano version of said song by Brad Mehldau as I stayed up (obviously
too late) and they were singing just outside, as if they knew. Just
sayin.
Cheers,Jill
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Thanks, Sheila, Andrew, Jill and Patrick. I had an earlier stanza
about the
kind of circular singing pattern but I couldn’t nail it so this is
the rump
of that poem. Jill, our blackbirds don’t go for it in the dead of
night but
at dawn we get a lone triller, sometimes a mate too I think. Beatle
Paul’s
song apparently referenced the civil rights movement so it might have
been
a diferent sort of singing in the night. ‘You were only waiting for
this
moment to arise/be free’.
Bill
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 5:07 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> cheers Bill morning here but different blackbirds UK
>
> liked feeling of just doing!!
>
>
> On 02/10/2018 23:45, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > Take the time
> >
> > to listen to this bird
> >
> > whose only audience
> >
> > is morning
> >
> >
> > bw
> >
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