Dr. Hook - Red-Winged Blackbird lyrics

Red-Winged Blackbird - Ray Sawyer (Joel Jaffe) The indians say that the blackbird Was flying too close to the sun And the bright burning flames changed his wings and his name To remind him how far he had come On the banks of the yellow Rio Grande There's a little stone shack built by hand And a young man with more than a lot on his mind Sits and stares out across the desert sand Red-winged Blackbird fly Away from Neuvo Laredo I'll be there by and by When I'm on my way back home In the dry dusty month of September He arrived with the West Texas wind In flight from the lies and the life he had lived He'd return but he did not know when Red-winged Blackbird fly Away from Neuvo Laredo I'll be there by and by When I'm on my way back home One morning the Red-winged Blackbird Left his barbed wire fence before dawn For the young man his flight had a magical meaning And the day after that he was gone Red-winged Blackbird fly Away from Neuvo Laredo I'll be there by and by When I'm on my way back home Red-winged Blackbird fly Away from Neuvo Laredo I'll be there by and by When I'm on my way back home.... (c) 1977 Whispering Wind Publishing Co.