High Flying Bird (Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show 5/4/69)

There's a high flying bird, flying way up in the sky

And I wonder if she looks down

As she goes on by?

Well, she's flying so freely in the sky

Lord, look at me here

I'm rooted like a tree here

Got those sit-down

Can't cry oh Lord, gonna die blues

Now the sun it comes up and lights up the day

And when he gets tired, Lord, he goes

On down his way to the east and to the west

He meets God every day

Lord, look at me here

I'm rooted like a tree here

Got those sit-down, can't cry

Oh Lord, gonna die blues

Now, I had a woman

Lord, she lived down by the mine

She ain't never seen the sun

Oh Lord, never stopped trying

Then one day my woman up and died

Lord, she up and died now

Oh Lord, she up and died now

She wanted to fly

And the only way to fly is die, die, die

There's a high flying bird, flying way up in the sky

And I wonder if she looks down

As she goes on by?

Well, she's flying so freely in the sky

Lord, look at me here

I'm rooted like a tree here

Got those sit-down, can't cry

Oh Lord, gonna die blues