Red-winged Blackbird Lyrics - Coal - Kathy Mattea

Oh, can't 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 

For when a man spills blood on the coal 

They carry him down from the coal mines dead 

Oh, fly away you red-winged bird 

Leave behind the miner's wife 

She'll dream about you when youre gone 

She'll dream about you all her life 

Oh, can't 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