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Blue Wing chords

[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

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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