Blue Wing chords by Tracy Grammer

Chords with lyrics

Tracy Grammer - Blue Wing


CAPO: 2nd Fret


INTRO: G+G

He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder
                       A minorAm
Well, it might have been a blue bird, I don't know
But he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska
           D MajorD  G+G
The salmon boats and 45 below

G+G
He said he got that blue wing out in Walla Walla
                    A minorAm
And his cellmate there was Little Willy John
And Willy, he was once a great blues singer
          D MajorD       G+G
And Wing and Willy wrote him up a song


CHORUS:
G+G                      C majorC
They said it's dark in here, I can't see the sky
   G+G                   D MajorD
But I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes
      G+G        C majorC
And I fly away beyond these walls
       G+G              D MajorD
Up above the clouds where the rain don't fall
        E minorEm   C majorC D MajorD
On a poor man's dream


G+G
They paroled Blue Wing in August of 1963
                   A minorAm
He moved north picking apples, to the town of Wenatchee
And then the winter finally caught him in a run down trailer park
                    G+G
On the south side of Seattle, where the days grow grey and dark


G+G
Well he drank and he dreamt of visions, when the salmon still ran free
                        A minorAm
And his fathers' fathers crossed that wide and wild old Bering Sea
And the land belonged to everyone and there were old songs yet to sing
                       G+G
Now it's narrowed down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing

CHORUS:
G+G                    C majorC
Hey, it's dark in here, I can't see the sky
   G+G                   D MajorD
But I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes
      G+G        C majorC
And I fly away beyond these walls
       G+G              D MajorD
Up above the clouds where the rain don't fall
        E minorEm   C majorC D MajorD
On a poor man's dream


INTERLUDE:

G+G
Well, he drank his way to LA, and that's where he died
                         A minorAm
And nobody knew his Christian name and there was no one there to cry
But I dreamt there was a funeral, a preacher and a cheap pine box
                      G+G
And halfway through the service, that blue wing began to talk


CHORUS:
G+G                      C majorC
He said, it's dark in here, I can't see the sky
   G+G                   D MajorD
But I look at this blue wing and I close my eyes
      G+G        C majorC
And I fly away beyond these walls
       G+G              D MajorD
Up above the clouds where the rain don't fall
        E minorEm   C majorC D MajorD
On a poor man's dream
        E minorEm   C majorC D MajorD
On a poor man's dream
        E minorEm   C majorC D MajorD G+G