Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1968
"Blackbird singing in the dark of night."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Blackbird singing in the dark of night."
What's actually sung
"Blackbird singing in the dead of night." Blackbird — The Beatles (1968)
Why the ear defaults
McCartney's D in "dead" is soft; "dark" is a more obvious pairing with "night," so the brain substitutes. Appears on fan lyric sites as a direct mis-transcription.
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