TRUTHIN' IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT - A Parody | Don Caron & Freedom Toast

A Parody of Blackbird, the popular song from 1968 by Paul McCartney & John Lennon. The parody lyrics by Freedom Toast and Production and Performance by Don Caron. Possibly, the best quote from the parody is "You were only waiting for a hairdo you could try."
Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender

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LYRICS to TRUTHIN' IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT

Donald truthin’ in the dead of night
Never caring what it is you write
All your life
You were only waiting to use words that are not right
 
Donald truthin’ in the dead of night
Language that’s creative and so free
All your life
You were only waiting to explain a cov-fe-fe
 
Donald lie, Donald lie
Making up words in the dark black night
 
Donald truthin’ in the dead of night
Big Macs making White House kitchens cry
All your life
You were always willing to trade buildings for some fries
 
Donald lie, Donald lie
Making up words in the dark black night
 
Donald whining in the dead of night
Making accusations that won’t fly
All your life
You were only waiting for a hairdo you could try
You were only waiting for a hairdo you could try
You were only waiting for a hairdo you could try

ABOUT THE SOURCE MUSIC

"Blackbird" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, and performed as a solo piece by McCartney. When discussing the song, McCartney has said that the lyrics were inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, and by the civil rights movement in the Southern United States.

McCartney explained on Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road that the guitar accompaniment for "Blackbird" was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's Bourrée in E minor, a well-known lute piece, often played on the classical guitar. As teenagers, he and George Harrison tried to learn Bourrée as a "show off" piece. The Bourrée is distinguished by melody and bass notes played simultaneously on the upper and lower strings. McCartney said that he adapted a segment of the Bourrée (reharmonised into the original's relative major key of G) as the opening of "Blackbird", and carried the musical idea throughout the song. The first three notes of the song, which then transitioned into the opening guitar riff, were inspired from Bach.

The first night his future wife Linda Eastman stayed at his home, McCartney played "Blackbird" for the fans camped outside his house.

Since composing "Blackbird" in 1968, McCartney has given various statements regarding both his inspiration for the song and its meaning. He has said that he was inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird one morning when the Beatles were studying Transcendental Meditation in Rishikesh, India and also writing it in Scotland as a response to the Little Rock Nine incident and the overall Civil Rights movement, wanting to write a song dedicated to people who had been affected by discrimination.

The song was recorded on 11 June 1968 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, with George Martin as the producer and Geoff Emerick as the audio engineer. It is a solo performance with McCartney playing a Martin D-28 acoustic guitar. The track includes recordings of a male common blackbird singing in the background.

Apart from the blackbird, only three sounds were recorded: McCartney's voice, his guitar, and a tapping that keeps time on the left channel. This tapping "has been incorrectly identified as a metronome in the past", according to engineer Geoff Emerick, who says it is actually the sound of Paul tapping his foot. McCartney also said the same in The Beatles' Anthology documentary. Emerick recalls [Paul's foot-taps, presumably] as being mic'd up separately. Footage included in the bonus content on disc two of the 2009 remaster of the album shows McCartney tapping both his feet alternately while performing the song.

The mono version contains the bird sounds a few seconds earlier than the stereo recording, and was originally issued on a mono incarnation of The Beatles (it has since been issued worldwide as part of The Beatles in Mono CD box set). The song appears on 2006 remix album Love with "Yesterday", billed as "Blackbird/Yesterday". "Blackbird" provides an introduction to "Yesterday".