Blue Wing-Dave Alvin

[ti:Blue Wing] [ar:Dave Alvin] [al:The Best Of The HighTone Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blue Wing - Dave Alvin [00:00.25]He had a blue wing [00:01.43] [00:02.08]Tattooed on his shoulder [00:03.83] [00:06.19]Might have been a bluebird I don't know [00:08.81] [00:10.95]Get stone drunk and talk about alaska [00:13.96] [00:15.54]The salmon boats and fourty five below [00:19.08] [00:20.47]Well he got that blue wing up in walla walla [00:23.87] [00:25.69]And his cellmate there was a little Willy John [00:29.06] [00:30.99]Willie he was once a great blues singer [00:34.79] [00:35.76]So wingin' Willie wrote him up a song [00:38.96] [00:39.88]Sang it's dark in here [00:41.59] [00:42.56]I can't see the sky [00:44.30] [00:45.55]But I look at this blue wing when I close my eyes [00:49.81] [00:50.35]And I fly away [00:51.78] [00:52.77]Beyond these walls [00:54.37] [00:55.35]Up above the clouds [00:56.77] [00:57.67]Where the rain don't fall [00:59.86] [01:02.42]On a poor man's dreams [01:05.35] [01:09.49]They paroled blue wing in August of 1963 [01:14.23] [01:14.83]He moved north picking apples in the town of wenatchee [01:18.91] [01:19.79]Then winter finally caught him in a rundown trailer park [01:24.09] [01:24.61]On the south side of Seattle [01:26.47] [01:27.04]The days grow grey and dark [01:29.02] [01:29.54]And he drank and he dreamt a vision of when [01:32.09]The seven still ran free [01:34.53]And his father's fathers crossed that wide old bering sea [01:38.92] [01:39.49]And the land belonged to everyone [01:42.08]There old songs yet to sing [01:43.74] [01:44.30]Now it's broken down to a cheap hotel and a [01:47.00]Tattooed prison wing [01:48.73]That it's dark in here [01:50.15] [01:51.20]I can't see the sky [01:52.92] [01:53.95]But I look at this blue wing when I close my eyes [01:58.74]And I fly away [02:01.01]Beyond these walls [02:01.67] [02:03.57]Up above the clouds [02:05.12] [02:05.88]Where the rain don't fall [02:08.38] [02:10.84]On a poor man's dreams [02:13.33] [02:33.61]Well he drank his way to L A and [02:35.91] [02:36.62]That's where he died [02:37.85] [02:38.64]No one knew his christian name and there was [02:41.27]No one there to cry [02:43.34]But I dreamt there was a service a preacher and [02:46.49]A cheap pine box [02:48.37]And halfway through the sermon blue wing began to talk [02:52.31] [02:53.46]He said it's dark in here [02:55.23] [02:56.24]I can't see the sky [02:58.02] [02:58.94]Oh but I look at this blue wing I close my eyes [03:03.51]And I fly away [03:05.11] [03:06.21]Beyond these walls [03:07.78] [03:08.57]Up above the clouds [03:10.20] [03:10.90]Where the rain don't fall [03:13.01] [03:15.57]On a poor man's dreams [03:18.11] [03:20.59]On a poor man's dreams [03:23.29] [03:29.17]On a poor man's dreams