Red-winged Blackbird Lyrics - Dr. Hook

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.