He worked the rice fields
With their cool dark wells
The only thing we've ever owned
is this old house here by the road
he'll catch some blackbird's wing
And we'll fly away to heaven
Come some sweet blue bonnet spring
She walked through springtime
the jobs will come, the flowers fade
And this old house felt so alone,
when the work took me away
And when she dies, she says
she'll catch some blackbird's wing
And she will fly away to heaven
Come some sweet blue -bodied
We tend our garden, we set the sun
This is the only place on earth
And once a year they come and go
At this old house nearby the grove
we'll catch some blackbird's wing
And we will fly away to heaven
Come some sweet blue bonnet spring
Yes, when we die in shade
We'll catch some blackbird's wing
And we will fly away together
Come some sweet blue bonnet spring you
