From: “The Beatles Classics - Dan Fox Big Note Piano”

Blackbird
by

PAUL MCCARTNEY and JOHN LENNON

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Sony/ATV Music Publishing

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 BLACKBIRD
Words and Music by JOHN LENNON
and PAUL McCARTNEY

Slowly
N.C. % G Am7 G/B
#3 44 ú ú : 34 Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï 44
}{
G 4
2 3 1 1

Ï Ï Ï
mp Black-bird, sing-ing in the dead of
Black-bird, sing-ing in the dead of
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F#3
4
· 44 ú ú : 34 Ï 44
5

A/C # B/D # Cm/E b

#4 w C
Ï
D
Ï nÏ
Em
ww
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G 4w Ï Ï
1

night, take these bro - ken wings and learn to fly;

night, take these sunk - en eyes and learn to see;

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F#4 w
4 3 2 1 2 1 2

G/D A7/C # C/E Cm/E b A7/C #

To Coda Þ
#
G/D D7/C

G Ïú Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï nÏ Ï Ï Ï Ï
}{
ú ú
3

all your life you were on - ly wait - ing for this mo - ment to a -
all your life you were on - ly wait - ing for this mo - ment to be

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F#
1 2 1 2 1 2 3

1.

#
G/B C G/B A D7 G

G ú 24 (34) :
2

{} rise.
Ï Ï #ú nú ú
F# w ú ú 24 ú (34) :
1

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2.
Bb
#2
G/B F Em Dm C C
44 úÏ
}{
G 4ú Ï n úÏ Ï wú ú
free. Black - bird fly,

F#2 ú 44 n Ï Ï Ï Ï bú ú
4 1

F Em Dm C Bb A7 N.C. D7/F #
# Ï nÏ Ï
24 n Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï
4

G úÏ
5

34
5 5

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Ï n úÏ úú # ÏÏ
2

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black - bird fly in - to the light of a dark black

F # nÏ #n úú
Ï Ï Ï bú Ï Î 24 34
2 1 4

D.S. % al Coda

Þ
CODA
Cm/E b
(verse 1)
#3 #4
G Am7 G/B G G/B Em

G 4 ú. 44 ú ú (34) Ï Ï Ï Ï
}{ }{
G 4ú
3

rise. You were on - ly

night.
ÏÏ ÏÏ Ï bÏ
F # 3 ÏÏ F#4 ú
slower

4 44 ú ú
(34) 4
3 1 2
5

A7/C #
#
G/D Am/C D
;
G

G Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï
}{
Ï nÏ Ï w
wait - ing for this mo - ment to a - rise.
Ï #Ï nÏ Ï Ï ú ú;
F#
1
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