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The next one is sealed

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The Archive

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Singles

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The Migration

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We actually did it.
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Videos

Straight from the channel — newest upload first.

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Subscribe on YouTube
The Blackbird Registry

Claim your permanent number.

One number for every person who finds their way here.

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Your number is yours for good.

No spam. No algorithm. Just new songs and things worth sending.

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The Paper Blackbirds

Rights & Credits

© 2026 The Paper Blackbirds. All rights reserved.

The songs, lyrics, sound recordings, artwork, photographs and writing on this site are original work and are protected by copyright. If you would like to use any of it — in a film, a video, a project, a classroom, anywhere — just ask. That is what the contact page is for.

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For licensing, sync, permissions or any rights question, write to us on the contact page and it comes straight to Josh.
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Privacy

This is a small site run by one person. It collects only what you hand it, and only to make the thing you asked for work.

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Nothing you give this site is sold, rented or handed to advertisers. If you want your information removed, ask on the contact page and it will be.

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Contact

Have something to say, ask, use, book, license or send our way? Leave a note.

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Sent. Your note made it to the archive.

Josh reads these himself, so a reply may take a few days.
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Publishing and business: Squeaky Lion Music.
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