Key: A major
Verse 1
on his shoulder
Well, it might have been a bluebird,
But he gets stone drunk and talks about
Alaska
G
D
G
And the salmon boats at forty -five below
He said he got that blue wing out in
Walla
Walla
And his cellmate there was little
Willie
Am
John
Oh and
Willie, he was once a great blues singer
The
N -wing and
D
G
Willie wrote him up a song
C
G
up above the clouds
Am
D
Where the rain don't fall,
Em
C
D
G
on a poor man's dream
He moved north picking apples
Wenatchee
Then the winter finally caught
him in a run -down trailer car
On the south side of
grow gray and dark
Well he drank and he dreamt of visions
where the salmon still ran free
And his father's fathers crossed
Bering
Sea
And the land belonged to everyone and
there were old songs yet to sing
Now it's narrowed down to a cheap
C
D
Em
C
D
dream
L .A., and that's where he died,
and nobody knew his
Christian
but I dreamt there was a funeral, a preacher and
And halfway through the service
D
C
Said it's dark in here, I can't see the sky
G
D
C
And fly away beyond these walls
Em
C
D
On a poor man's dream
Em
C
D
On a poor man's dream
Outro 1
C
D
Em
G
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ChordsG Am D C Em
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