#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

[exercise-of-trust]

thought i heard a red-winged blackbird red-winged blackbird down my road he'll be in there singing his heart out he'll be telling me stories too of where he went to winter last year of how he's going back there too

[goneahead]

@ollebosse Reminds me of this absolutely heart breaking folksong written by Billy Edd Wheeler:

Redwing Blackbird

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.

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt