Responding to the civil rights struggle in the US.
It's a slightly modified AA BA form Blackbird is.
I say that it refer, it sort of takes us back to Yesterday
with just Paul, solo, by himself, with
the guitar, very sort of singer-songwriter-y, right.
I'm just sort of sitting here, me and my guitar,
singing you a song with meaningful lyrics. but, Blackbird is kind of Paul's
parallel to John's Revolution, right? And we'll talk about that in just a bit.
You know, John's Revolution sort of dealing
with the idea of revolution, and, and, and
civil unrest, and that kind of thing, and most of that about the Vietnam war.
But here's Paul, and, and you really again,
you see a real contrast between the two personalities.
Blackbird is a song about an unhappy situation, but it's not an unhappy song.
It's a, really quite a beautiful song.
John on the other hand, is talking about an unhappy situation
and especially the fast version of Revolution is an aggressive song.
There's nothing laid-back or, or sort of pretty, in that
sense, about it, so you really see those two personalities.
The other one that kind of, relates back to
Yesterday from Paul McCartney on this album is
the song, Mother Nature's Son.
Now here, not only is it just sort of Paul,
sort of a, a solo Paul tune, but instead of
the strings as we got on Yesterday, or Eleanor Rigby,
we get this really nice arrangement of horns, and percussion.
This is one of those songs that was inspired by something
directly in in India and it came directly from a Maharishi
lecture on nature.
Again, it's a modified AABA form, so we're really
looking, not at the form, doesn't tell us too much
except that it's not just a straight 1964, 1963 style
AABA that, that Paul did so many times back then.
But again, these two songs, Blackbird and Mother Nature's Son, really kind of
being Paul at the guitar, one sort of more solo and more intimate.
The other one bringing a kind of classical
sounding kind of horn arrangement in, both
of those kind of hearkening back to Yesterday.
And so we can see him approaching the same
kind of song in different kinds of ways here.
And then, finally, the song Wild Honey Pie, which about all I can say about
Wild Honey Pie is it's about a minute of improvised silliness.
It's a song that's jer, there just for the fun of it, and again, don't, we,
we probably should not, should, should keep in mind that
the Beatles were partly popular for their kooky sense of humor.
And so there's you know, when you hear Wild Honey
Pie and you think about the Beatles and all that.
Even though that's the kind of track that maybe a lot of other bands wouldn't have
released or it would end up these days as kind of a bonus track or something.
Nevertheless there it is, a little bit of
Paul McCartney just being silly in the studio.
So having looked now at these Paul songs and surveyed everything that's
on the White Album let's do some Paul song closeups.
Well look at two of his singles, Lady Madonna and Hey Jude, and then from the
White Album, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.