High Flyin' Bird

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 riding so free and easy in the sky

But look at me here

Lord, I'm just rooted like a tree here

I got the sit down, can't fly

Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues

Well the sun comes along and it lights up the day

Well it brings the daytime and then it goes on its way

From the East to the West it travels every day

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

Well I once knew a man

He worked down in the mine

Well he never saw the sun and he never stopped trying

Then one day his woman up and died

She just upped and died

You know she upped and died

Well, she wanted to fly

The only way to fly was to die

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 riding so free and easy in the sky

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

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

Lord I'm gonna die blues

Lord I'm gonna die blues

Lord I'm gonna die blues