Black Wings - Original Folk Noir (ukulele)

Written in 1992, while I was working on a factory assembly line 40 hours a week.
When I die I'm not afraid of going to hell, I'm afraid of being sent back to the factory.
There are several factory era songs laying around, all of them dark, darkly funny, or just plain morbid.
Folk noir back when there was no such thing.
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Black wings that surround me
Come to carry me to hell's dark hole
Black wings wrapped around me
Jet black wings gonna take my soul

Three days and nights in a raging fever
Three days and nights out of my head
When the fever broke I came to my senses
I found my own true love, she was laying dead

I dropped to my knees and I held her to me
I swore I'd kill the guilty man
Then I saw my knife still in her shoulder
I saw her blood on my own hands

Black wings that surround me
Come to carry me to hell's dark hole
Black wings wrapped around me
Jet black wings gonna take my soul

So I hang the rope from the cabin rafters
I stand upon the old wooden chair
Tonight the deathbird shall claim another
I can hear black wings take to the air

Black wings that surround me
Come to carry me to hells dark hole
Black wings wrapped around me
Jet black wings gonna take my soul

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• original
• song
• songwriter
• folk
• noir
• ukulele
• hillbilly
• country
• bluegrass

[MoonOccultsTheSun]

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[unclejeff64]

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[breachborn]

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing your gift of song!!

Terrific. Bless your heart. For sure!

Peace.

[unclejeff64]

@breachborn thank you!

[unclejeff64]

thank you!

i really appreciate those kind words and thanks for subscribing as well.

[unclejeff64]

thank you!

i was always proud of this one.

[MoonOccultsTheSun]

very reminiscent of Angels of Light

[goouttothemeadow]

Jeff, I found your song by mistake, I was looking for Tom Waits' song of the same name. Tom Waits released the album Bone Machine, (which contains the song Black Wings) in '92, the same year you wrote this. Anyway, your song blew me away mate, truly moving. In my opinion, songs such as this are everlasting and if the human race survives, we'll be singing songs like yours.

[faithtruthlove07]

WOW great tune!!!!!!!!!

[unclejeff64]

thank you!