He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder Well, it might have been a bluebird, I don’t know But he’d get stone drunk and talk about Alaska The salmon boats and 45 below
He said he got that blue wing up in Walla Walla Where his cellmate there was a Little Willy John And Willie, he was once a great blues singer And Wing & Willie wrote him up a song
(They said)
“It’s dark in here, can’t see the light 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 dream”
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there.
