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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
and the salmon boats and 45 below
well he got that blue wing in jail at Walla Walla
and his cellmate there was Little Willie John
Willie, he was once a great blues singer
so Wing & Willie wrote 'em up a song
Chorus
N.C. D G
said, it's dark in here, can't see the sky
but I look at this 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 2
well they paroled blue wing in August of 1963
and he moved north picking apples to the town of Wenatchee
winter finally caught him 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 broken down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing
Chorus
N.C. D G
said, it's dark in here, can't see the sky
but I look at this 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 LA and that's where he died
and no one knew his Christian name, and there was no one there to cry
but I dreamt that there was a service, a preacher and an old pine box
and halfway through the service, blue wing began to talk
Chorus
N.C. D G
he said, it's dark in here, can't see the sky
but I look at this 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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