Blue Wing Chords & Lyrics - Jim Henry

CAPO: 2nd Fret

[INTRO]
[G]

[VERSE 1]

He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder
Well, it might have been a blue bird, I don't [Am]know

But he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska
The salmon boats and [D]45 be[G]low

[VERSE 2]
[G]He said he got that blue wing out in Walla Walla
And his cellmate there was Little Willy [Am]John

And Willy, he was once a great blues singer
And Wing and Willy [D]wrote him up a [G]song


[CHORUS]
[G]They said it's dark in here, I can't see the [C]sky
But I [G]look at this blue wing and I close my [D]eyes
And I fly a[G]way beyond these [C]walls
Up above the [G]clouds where the rain don't [D]fall
On a poor man's [Em]dream [C] [D]

[VERSE 3]
[G]They paroled Blue Wing in August of 1963
He moved north picking apples, to the [Am]town of Wenatchee

And then the winter finally caught him in a run down trailer park
On the south side of Seattle, where the [G]days grow grey and dark


[VERSE 4]
[G]Well he drank and he dreamt of visions, when the salmon still ran free
And his fathers' fathers crossed that wide and [Am]wild 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 [G]tattooed prison wing


[CHORUS]
[G]Hey, it's dark in here, I can't see the [C]sky
But I [G]look at this blue wing and I close my [D]eyes
And I fly a[G]way beyond these [C]walls
Up above the [G]clouds where the rain don't [D]fall
On a poor man's [Em]dream [C] [D]

[VERSE 5]
[G]Well, he drank his way to LA, and that's where he died
And nobody knew his Christian name and there was [Am]no one there to cry

But I dreamt there was a funeral, a preacher and a cheap pine box
And halfway through the service, that blue [G]wing began to talk


[CHORUS]
[G]He said, it's dark in here, I can't see the [C]sky
But I [G]look at this blue wing and I close my [D]eyes
And I fly a[G]way beyond these [C]walls
Up above the [G]clouds where the rain don't [D]fall
On a poor man's [Em]dream [C] [D]
On a poor man's [Em]dream [C] [D]
On a poor man's [Em]dream [C] [D] [G]