Hi
I am the co-writer of the song "Mechanical Blackbird". I wrote the music to lyrics by my friend, Dennis Doyle, with whom I lost touch with long ago.
The song was written in response to the news that Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester had put loudspeakers in the trees due to a lack of real blackbirds!
It was performed originally in 1967 on a BBC TV programme called "Songs of Grief and Glory". This included a publishing deal with EMI which led to the Spinners recording it.
The lyric on the previous post are wrong, but those posted by Susanne are correct apart from "see" which should be "sea" as pointed out in Snuffy's post.
I am surprised and rather pleased that there should still be interest in the song.

Alan Hoida