High Flyin' Bird

[Verse 1]

There's a high flyin' bird way up in the sky

And I wonder if she looks down on me as she flies on by

While she's ridin' so free and easy in the sky

[Chorus]

But look at me here

Lord, I'm just rooted like a tree here

And I got the sit-down-can't-fly, oh Lord, I'm gonna die blues

[Verse 2]

Well, the sun comes along, and it lights up the day

Well, it brings the daytime, and it goes on it's way

From the east to the west it travels every day

[Chorus]

But look at me here

Lord, I'm just rooted like a tree here

And I got the sit-down-can't-fly, oh Lord, I'm gonna die blues

[Bridge]

Well, I once knew a man

He worked down in the mine

Well, he never saw the sun, and he never stopped cryin'

Then one day his woman up and died

She just upped and died

You know she just upped and died

Well, she wanted to fly

The only way to fly was to die

[Verse 1]

And there's a high flyin' bird way up in the sky

And I wonder if she looks down on me as she flies on by

While she's ridin' so free and easy in the sky

[Chorus]

But look at me here

I'm just rooted like a tree here

I got the sit-down-can't-fly, oh Lord, I'm gonna die blues

But look at me here

Lord, I'm just rooted like a tree here

And I got the sit-down-can't-fly, oh Lord, I'm gonna die blues

[Outro]

Lord, I'm gonna die blues

Lord, I'm gonna die blues

Lord, I'm gonna die blues