Thanks, Doug and Jill again. I wasn’t going to tinker with it. I was just
expaining how it got to be what it is. I will try some night listening.
Cheers, Bill
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 1:14 am, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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