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"Blue Wing" © Tom Russell / Bug Music OBO End of the Trail Music (SOCAN)

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he had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder
well it might have been a blue bird, i don't know
but he gets stone drunk and talks about alaska
the salmon boats and 45 below

he said he got that blue wing up in walla walla
and his cellmate there was little willie john
and willie, he was once a great blues singer
and wingin willie wrote him up a song

he said, "it's dark in here, i can't see the sky
but i look at this blue wing and i close my eyes
and i fly away beyond these walls
up above the clouds where the rain don’t fall
on a poor man's dreams"

they paroled blue wing in august of 1963
he moved north picking apples to the town of wenatchee
then winter finally caught him in a run-down trailer park
on the south side of seattle where the days grow grey and dark

and he drank and he dreamt of visions where the salmon still ran free
and his father's fathers crossed that wild old bering sea
and the land belonged to everyone and there were old songs yet to sing
now it's narrowed down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing

he said, "it's dark in here ..."

well he drank his way to la, and that's where he died
and no one 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
and half way through the service, that blue wing began to talk …

he said, "it's dark in here ..."

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from Book of Sparrows EP, released November 6, 2007

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Tracy Grammer Greenfield, Massachusetts

Writer. Actor. Storyteller. Singer. Multi-instrumentalist. Former head cheerleader, now a fearless navigator of the heart.

“One of the finest pure musicians anywhere in folkdom.” - Boston Globe

“A brilliant artist.” - Joan Baez

“Her gifts as a musician are like that of a painter who is a master of chiaroscuro, offering light and shadow at every turn.“ - Mary Chapin Carpenter ... more

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