Key: E major
Intro 1
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A
D
Verse 1
tattooed on his shoulder
Ought might have been a bluebird,
But he'd get stone drunk and talk
about Alaska
D
Verse 2
He said he got his blue
wing up in Walla- Walla
And his cellmate there was a
Now Willie, he was once
a great blues singer
him up a song
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Verse 3
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D
They said, it's dark in here,
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G
And I fly away, beyond these walls
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Verse 4
in August of 1963
And he moved North,
And when winter finally caught him,
he's in a rundown trailer park
And he drank and he dreamt a vision
of when the Salmon still ran free
Verse 5
And the land belonged to everyone
And there were old songs yet to sing
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Bm
And a tattooed prison wing
Verse 6
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G
And I fly away, beyond these walls
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A
where the rain don't fall
Interlude 1
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Bm
A
Verse 7
and that's where he died
And there was no one to knew
his Christian name
But dreamed there was a funeral,
a preacher and a cheap pine box
Verse 8
D
G
And I fly away, beyond these walls
A
Verse 9
Bm
A
On a poor man's dreams
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D
On a poor man's dreams
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBm A D Em G
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