Red-Winged Blackbird - Kathy Mattea

Oh cant you see that pretty little bird

Singing with all his heart and soul

He’s got a blood red spot on his wing

And all the rest of him’s black as coal

Of all the colors i ever did see

Red and black are the ones i dread

Oh when a man spills blood on the coal

They carry him down from the coalmines dead

Oh fly away you redwinged bird

Leave behind the miners wife

She’ll dream about you when your gone

She’ll dream about you all her life

Oh cant you see that pretty little bird

Singing with all his heart and soul

He’s got a blood red spot on his wing

And all the rest of him’s black as coal