所属专辑:King Of California
歌手: Dave Alvin
时长: 03:43
Blue Wing - Dave Alvin[00:00:00]
He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder[00:00:01]
It might have been a blue bird I don't know[00:00:06]
But he gets stone drunk and talks about Alaska[00:00:11]
The salmon boats and 45 below[00:00:16]
He said he got that blue wing up in walla walla[00:00:21]
Where his cellmate there was little Willy John[00:00:26]
And willy he was once a great blues singer[00:00:31]
And winging willy wrote him up a song[00:00:36]
He said it's dark in here can't see the sky[00:00:40]
But I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes[00:00:46]
And I fly away beyond these walls[00:00:50]
Up above the clouds where the rain don't fall[00:00:55]
On a poor man's dreams[00:01:03]
They paroled blue wing in August of 1963[00:01:10]
And he moved on picking apples to the town of wenatchee[00:01:15]
Then winter finally caught him in a run-down trailer park[00:01:20]
On the south side of seattle where the days grow gray and dark[00:01:25]
And he drank and he dreamt of visions when the salmon still ran free[00:01:30]
And his father's fathers crossed that wild old bering sea[00:01:35]
And the land belonged to everyone and there were old songs yet to sing[00:01:40]
Now it's narrowed down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing[00:01:45]
He said it's dark in here can't see the sky[00:01:49]
But I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes[00:01:54]
And I fly away beyond these walls[00:01:59]
Up above the clouds where the rain don't fall[00:02:04]
On a poor man's dreams[00:02:11]
Well he drank his way to LA and that's where he died[00:02:34]
But no one knew his Christian name and there was no one there to cry[00:02:39]
But I dreamt there was a service a preacher and a cheap pine box[00:02:44]
And half way through the service blue wing began to talk[00:02:49]
He said it's dark in here can't see the sky[00:02:54]
But I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes[00:02:59]
And then I fly away beyond these walls[00:03:04]
Up above the clouds where the rain don't fall[00:03:09]
On a poor man's dreams[00:03:16]
On a poor man's dreams[00:03:21]
On a poor man's dreams[00:03:29]