{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":269956,"song":"Blue Wing","artist":"Tom Russell Band","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11220473-blue-wing-chords-by-tom-russell-band/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/269956?type=chord","rating":4.50823,"votes":74,"content":"Blue Wing –Tom Russell\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe had a Blue Wing tattooed on his shoulder.  Well it might have been a[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nblue bird I don't know.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska.  Salmon boats and forty-[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nfive below[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe said he got that Blue Wing up in Walla Walla.  Where his cellmate there[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nwas a little Willy John[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWilly he was once a great blues singer.  And Wing and Willy wrote him up a[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nsong:[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe said its dark in here…can't see the sky.   But I look at this Blue Wing[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I close my eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen I fly away, beyond these walls… Up above the clouds, where the rain[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\ndon’t fall[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn a poor man’s dreams…  (yaa, On a poor man’s dreams,  yaa)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell they paroled Blue Wing in August, 1963[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd he moved on pickin’ apples to the town of Wenatchee.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWinter finally caught him in a run down trailer park,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOn the south side of Seattle where the days grow gray and dark[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd he drank and he dreamt a vision of when the salmon still swam free[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd his father’s father’s crossed that wide old Bering Sea.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd the land belonged to everyone, and there were old songs left to sing.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow it’s narrowed down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe said its dark in here…can't see the sky.   But I look at this Blue Wing[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I close my eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen I fly away, beyond these walls… Up above the clouds, where the rain[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\ndon’t fall[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn a poor man’s dreams…  (yaa, On a poor man’s dreams,  yaa)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell he drank his way to L.A. and that’s where he died.  But no one knew his Christian name[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd there was no one there to cry.  But I dreamt there was a service.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nA preacher and an old pine box.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd halfway through the sermon you know Blue Wing began to talk[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe said its dark in here…can't see the sky.   But I look at this Blue Wing[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I close my eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThen I fly away, beyond these walls… Up above the clouds, where the rain[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\ndon’t fall[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn a poor man’s dreams…  (yaa, On a poor man’s dreams,  yaa)[/tab]","plain_text":"Blue Wing –Tom Russell\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["C","Dm","G","F","Am","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}