[Verse 1] He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder Well, it might have been a bluebird, I don't know But he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska The salmon boats and forty-five below He got that blue wing up in Walla Walla And his cellmate there was a Little Willy John And Willie, he was once a great blues singer So Wing & Willie wrote him up a song
[Chorus] They sang, it's dark in here I can't see the sky But I look at my blue wing and I close my eyes And I fly away, beyond these walls Up above the clouds, wherе the rain don't fall On a poor man's dreams
[Verse 2] They parolеd blue wing in August of 1963 He moved north, picking apples to the town of Wenatchee And then winter finally caught him, he's in a rundown trailer park On the south side of Seattle where the days grow grey and dark And he drank and he dreamt a vision of when the salmon still ran free And his father's fathers crossed that wide old Bering sea And the land belonged to everyone, and there were old songs yet to sing Now, it's narrowed down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing
[Chorus] He said it's dark in here I can't see the sky But I look at my blue wing and I close my eyes And I fly away, beyond these walls Up above the clouds, where the rain don't fall On a poor man's dreams
[Verse 3] Well, he drank his way to L.A., and that's where he died And there was no one knew his Christian name And there was no one there to cry But I dreamed there was a funeral; a preacher and a cheap pine box And halfway through the sermon old blue wing he began to talk
[Chorus] He said it's dark in here Can't see the sky But I look at my blue wing and I close my eyes And I fly away, beyond these walls Up above the clouds, where the rain don't fall On a poor man's dreams
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