High Flying Bird

There's a high flyin' bird

Way up in the sky

And I wonder does he look down

As he flies on by

Ridin' on the air so easy

In the sky

But Lord look at me here

I'm rooted like a tree here

I got the sit down, can't cry

Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues

Well the sun comes along

It lights up the day

And when he gets tired he slides down

All of the way

Well it's east to the west

He gets gone every day

But Lord look at me here

I'm rooted like a tree here

I got the sit down, can't cry

Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues

Well I had a man

And he lived in a mine

Well he never saw the sun

But Lord he never stopped tryin'

Then one day my man up and died

I said my man up and died

Oh my man up and died

Well he wanted to fly

And the only way to fly was to die

There's a high flyin' bird

Way up in the sky

And I wonder does he look down

As he flies on by

Ridin' on the air so easy

In the sky

But Lord look at me here

I'm rooted like a tree here

I got the sit down, can't cry

Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues

But Lord look at me here

I'm rooted like a tree here

I got the sit down, can't cry

Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues