Tablature blue wing - Dave Alvin

          



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  Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 12:31:08 -0800

  From: Brad Mahugh <bmahugh@ix.netcom.com>

  Subject: TAB: <blue wing> by <dave alvin>

  

  BLUE WING

  

  written by Tom Russell

  (as heard on the album, "KING OF CALIFORNIA" by Dave Alvin)

  

  D

  He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder

  D                                   Em

  might have been a bluebird, I don't know 

  

  but he got stone drunk and he talked about Alaska

  A                    D

  salmon boats and 45 below

  

  well he got that blue wing at Walla Walla

  and his cellmate was a Little Willy John

  Willie, he was once a great blues singer

  so Wing & Willie wrote him up a song

  

  REFRAIN/CHORUS

  (no chord)         D                   G  

  sang, it's dark in here, can't see the light

        D                                     A

  but I look at this blue wing when I close my eyes

            D                  G 

  and I fly away, beyond these walls

               D                            A

  up above the clouds, where the rain don't fall

                  D    G A  D   

  on a poor man's dreams

  

  well they broke blue wing in August in 1963

  and blue wing moved on, picking apples in the town of Wenatchee

  winter finally caught him in a rundown trailer park

  on the south side of Seattle where the days grow long and dark

  

  and he drank and he dreamt a vision

  of when the seven still ran free

  and his father's fathers crossed that wide old Bering sea

  the land belonged to everyone, there were old songs yet to sing

  now, it's broken down to a cheap hotel and a tattooed prison wing

  

  now, it's dark in here ... (repeat REFRAIN/CHORUS)

  

  well he drank his way to heaven and that's where he died

  and no one knew his Christian name, and there was no one 

    there who cried

  but I dreamt that there was a service,

    a preacher in an old pine box

  and halfway through the service, the wing began to talk 

  

  he said, it's dark in here ... (repeat REFRAIN/CHORUS) 

  

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  ' transcribed by Brad Mahugh       bmahugh@ix.netcom.com             '

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  Brad Mahugh

  e-mail:bmahugh@ix.netcom.com

  

  

   


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 Blue wing, de Dave alvin 

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