[Intro]
C#m B E
[Verse 1]
E
He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder
F#m
Well it might have been a blue bird, I don't know
But he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska
B E
The salmon boats and forty-five below
[Verse 2]
E
He said he got his blue wing up in Walla Walla
F#m
And his cellmate there was little Willy John
Now Willy he was once a great blues singer
B E
An' Blue Wing and Willy wrote 'em up a song
[Chorus]
E A
They said its dark in here, can't see the sky
E B
But I look at my blue wing and I close my eyes
E A
And I fly away, beyond these walls
E B
Up above the clouds, where the rain don't fall
C#m B
On a poor man’s dreams
[Verse 3]
E
They paroled Blue Wing in August, of nineteen sixty three
F#m
And he moved north pickin’ apples, to the town of Wenatchee
And then winter finally caught him, he's in a run down trailer park
B E
On the south side of Seattle, where the days grow grey and dark
[Verse 4]
E
And he drank and he dreamt a vision, of when the salmon still ran free
F#m
And his father’s fathers crossed, that wild old Bering Sea
And the land belonged to everyone, and there was old songs yet to sing
B E
Now it’s narrowed down to a cheap hotel, and a tattooed prison wing
[Chorus]
E A
He said it's dark in here, can't see the sky
E B
But I look at my blue wing and I close my eyes
E A
And I fly away, beyond these walls
E B
Up above the clouds, where the rain don't fall
C#m B
On a poor man’s dreams
[Break]
C#m B
[Verse 5]
E
Well he drank his way to L.A., and that’s where he died
F#m
There was no one that 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
B E
And halfway through the sermon, Ol' Blue Wing began to talk
[Chorus]
E A
He said its dark in here, can't see the sky
E B
But I look at my blue wing and I close my eyes
E A
And I fly away, beyond these walls
E B
Up above the clouds, where the rain don't fall
C#m B
On a poor man’s dreams,
[Outro]
C#m B
On a poor man’s dreams,
E A E
On a poor man's dreams
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