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

Just ridin' so free and easy

In the sky

But look at me (But look at me)

I'm just rooted like a tree (Just rooted like a tree)

I got those sit down, can't fly

Whoa, Lord, I'm gonna die blues

Now I once knew a man

He lived in a mine

You know he never saw the sun

But then he never stopped tryin'

Then one day that poor man

He up and died

You know he up and died, Lord (He up and died)

Now he up and he died (He up and died)

He wanted to fly

And the only way to fly was to die

Now there's a high flyin' bird

Way up in the sky

And I wonder does he look down

As he flies on by

Just ridin' so free and easy

In the sky

But look at me (But look at me)

I'm just rooted like a tree (Just rooted like a tree)

I got those sit down, can't fly

Whoa, Lord, I'm gonna die blues (Gonna die, gonna die)

But look at me (But look at me)

I'm just rooted like a tree (Just rooted like a tree)

I got those sit down, can't fly

Whoa, Lord, I'm gonna die blues

Gonna die blues

Lord, I'm gonna die blues (I'm dyin' blues, I'm dyin' blues)