{"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":59992,"song":"Blue Wing","artist":"Dave Alvin","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11541232-blue-wing-chords-by-dave-alvin/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/59992?type=chord","rating":4.58197,"votes":24,"content":"(as heard on the album, \"KING OF CALIFORNIA\" by Dave Alvin)\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWell, it might have been a bluebird, I don't know[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nbut he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand the salmon boats and 45 below[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nwell he got that blue wing in jail at Walla Walla[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nand his cellmate there was Little Willie John[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWillie, he was once a great blues singer[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nso Wing & Willie wrote 'em up a song[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]N.C.               [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nsaid, it's dark in here, can't see the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nbut I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I fly away, beyond these walls[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nup above the clouds, where the rain don't fall[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\non a poor man's dreams[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nwell they paroled blue wing in August of 1963[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nand he moved north picking apples to the town of Wenatchee[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nwinter finally caught him in a rundown trailer park[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\non the south side of Seattle where the days grow grey and dark[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nand he drank and he dreamt a vision of when the salmon still ran free[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nand his father's fathers crossed that wide old Bering sea[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nand the land belonged to everyone, and there were old songs yet to sing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nnow, it's narrowed broken down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]N.C.               [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nsaid, it's dark in here, can't see the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nbut I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I fly away, beyond these walls[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nup above the clouds, where the rain don't fall[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\non a poor man's dreams[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nwell he drank his way to LA and that's where he died[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nand no one knew his Christian name, and there was no one there to cry[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nbut I dreamt that there was a service, a preacher and an old pine box[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand halfway through the service, blue wing began to talk[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]N.C.               [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nhe said, it's dark in here, can't see the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nbut I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand I fly away, beyond these walls[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nup above the clouds, where the rain don't fall[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\non a poor man's dreams[/tab]","plain_text":"(as heard on the album, \"KING OF CALIFORNIA\" by Dave Alvin)\n\n[Verse 1]\n\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\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["D","Em","A","C","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}