red-winged blackbird

Lyrics

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 is 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, fly away you red winged bird, leave behind the miner's wife, she'll dream about you when you're 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 is black as coal