Red-Winged Blackbird
Kathy Mattea * Track #3 On Coal
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Album Coal
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- #2Blue Diamond Mines
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- #3Red-Winged Blackbird
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- #4Lawrence Jones
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- #5Green Rolling Hills
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- #6Coal Tattoo
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- #7Sally in the Garden
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- #8You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
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- #9Dark as a Dungeon
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- #10Coming of the Roads
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- #11Black Lung/Coal
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Red-Winged Blackbird by Kathy Mattea
Release Date
Performed by
Kathy MatteaWrited by
Billy Edd WheelerAbout
Many people believe that the red-winged blackbird is a harbinger of death. In this song, she is saying that she dreads seeing one of the birds because it means a miner is going to die.
Red-Winged Blackbird Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Verse 3]
Oh 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
[Verse 4]
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
Red-Winged Blackbird Q&A
Who wrote Red-Winged Blackbird's ?
Red-Winged Blackbird was written by Billy Edd Wheeler.
Who produced Red-Winged Blackbird's ?
Red-Winged Blackbird was produced by Kathy Mattea & Marty Stuart.
When did Kathy Mattea release Red-Winged Blackbird?
Kathy Mattea released Red-Winged Blackbird on Tue Apr 01 2008.