Blue Wing-Tom Russell

[ti:Blue Wing] [ar:Tom Russell] [al:Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.99]Blue Wing - Tom Russell (汤姆罗素) [00:03.44]Written by：Russell [00:04.29] [00:13.02]He had a blue wing [00:14.18] [00:14.91]Tattooed on his shoulder [00:16.59] [00:18.75]Well it might have been a bluebird [00:20.68] [00:21.22]I don't know [00:21.91] [00:24.50]But he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska [00:28.06] [00:30.37]The salmon boats and 45 below [00:33.36] [00:35.89]He said he got that blue wing up in walla walla [00:39.28] [00:41.66]And his cellmate there was a little Willy John [00:44.98] [00:47.79]And willie he was once a great blues singer [00:51.30] [00:53.47]So wing willie wrote him up a song [00:56.59] [00:58.20]They sang it's dark in here [00:59.65] [01:01.25]Can't see the sky [01:02.43] [01:04.97]But I look at this blue wing when I close my eyes [01:08.64] [01:09.98]And I fly away beyond these walls [01:14.60] [01:15.95]Up above the clouds where the rain don't fall [01:20.22] [01:21.78]On a poor man's dreams [01:23.60] [01:31.08]They paroled blue wing in august of 1963 [01:35.96] [01:36.99]And he moved north picking apples to the town of wenatchee [01:41.52] [01:42.68]And then winter finally caught him in a rundown trailer park [01:47.27] [01:48.59]On the south side of seattle [01:50.58] [01:51.19]Where the days grow grey and dark [01:53.19] [01:54.25]And he drank and he dreamt a vision [01:56.27] [01:57.03]Of when the seven still ran free [01:59.28] [02:00.00]And his father's [02:01.07]Fathers crossed that wide old bering sea [02:04.78] [02:05.84]And the land belonged to everyone [02:07.74] [02:08.45]And there were old songs yet to sing [02:10.52] [02:11.50]Now it's broken down to a cheap hotel [02:13.82]And a tattooed prison wing [02:15.83] [02:16.35]Now it's dark in here [02:17.73] [02:19.40]Can't see the sky [02:20.51] [02:23.08]But I look at this blue wing when I close my eyes [02:26.90] [02:28.06]And I fly away beyond these walls [02:32.92] [02:34.18]Up above the clouds where the rain don't fall [02:38.49] [02:40.13]On a poor man's dreams [02:41.77] [02:55.36]Well he drank his way to L A [02:57.44] [02:58.89]And that's where he died [03:00.35] [03:01.42]But no one knew his christian name [03:04.15]And there was no one there to cry [03:06.34] [03:07.23]But I dreamt there was a funeral [03:09.35] [03:10.27]A preacher and a cheap pine box [03:12.12] [03:12.92]And halfway through the sermon blue wing began to talk [03:17.97]He said it's dark in here [03:19.41] [03:20.95]Can't see the sky [03:22.22] [03:24.74]But I look at this blue wing when I close my eyes [03:28.55] [03:29.85]And I fly away beyond these walls [03:34.50] [03:35.86]Up above the clouds where the rain don't fall [03:40.20] [03:41.74]On a poor man's dreams [03:43.80] [03:45.15]Yeah [03:45.77] [03:47.68]On a poor man's dreams [03:49.74] [03:50.98]Yeah [03:51.50] [03:53.66]On a poor man's dreams