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Blue Wing

Tom Russell Band

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Blue Wing �Tom Russell C He had a Blue Wing tattooed on his shoulder. Well it might have been a Dm blue bird I don't know. G But he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska. Salmon boats and forty- C five below C He said he got that Blue Wing up in Walla Walla. Where his cellmate there Dm was a little Willy John Dm G Willy he was once a great blues singer. And Wing and Willy wrote him up a C song: CHORUS C F C He said its dark in here�can't see the sky. But I look at this Blue Wing G and I close my eyes C F C Then I fly away, beyond these walls� Up above the clouds, where the rain G don�t fall Am G Am G On a poor man�s dreams� (yaa, On a poor man�s dreams, yaa) C Well they paroled Blue Wing in August, 1963 C Dm And he moved on pickin� apples to the town of Wenatchee. Dm Winter finally caught him in a run down trailer park, Dm G C On the south side of Seattle where the days grow gray and dark C And he drank and he dreamt a vision of when the salmon still swam free C Dm And his father�s father�s crossed that wide old Bering Sea. Dm And the land belonged to everyone, and there were old songs left to sing. Dm G C Now it�s narrowed down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing. Chorus C Well he drank his way to L.A. and that�s where he died. But no one knew his Christian name C Dm And there was no one there to cry. But I dreamt there was a service. Dm A preacher and an old pine box. Dm G C And halfway through the sermon you know Blue Wing began to talk Chorus
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