歌曲名 Blue Wing

歌手名 Tom Russell

He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder

Well it might have been a blue bird I dont know

But hed get stone drunk and talk about Alaska

The salmon boats and 45 below

He said he got that blue wing up in Walla Walla

And his cellmate there was Little Willy John

And Willy he was once a great blues singer

And Wing and Willy wrote em up a song They said

Its dark in here cant 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 dont fall

On a poor mans dream

They paroled Blue Wing in August of 1963

He moved north picking apples to the town of Wenatchee

Then winter finally caught him in a run down trailer park

On the south side of Seattle where the days grow gray and dark

And he drank and he dreamt of visions when the salmon still ran free

And his fathers fathers crossed that wild old Bering Sea

And the land belonged to everyone and there were old songs yet to sing

Now its narrowed down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing

Its dark in here cant 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 dont fall

On a poor mans dream

Well he drank his way to L A and thats where he died

And no one knew his Christian name and there was no one there to cry

But I dreamt there was a funeral a preacher and a cheap pine box

And half way through the service Blue Wing began to talk He said

Its dark in here cant 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 dont fall

On a poor mans dream

Hey hey On a poor mans dream

Hey hey On a poor mans dream