High Flying Bird chords by Judy Henske

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

♫ Verse :
B minorBm       E MajorE
There's a high flyin' bird
        B minorBm     E MajorE
Way up in the sky
    B minorBm         FF
And I wonder does he look down
       B minorBm
As he flies on by
                FF
Well, he's ridin' on the air
        B minorBm
So easy in the sky

♫ Chorus:
              E MajorE
But Lord, look at me here
            D MajorD    E MajorE
Oh
I'm rooted like a tree here
        B minorBm    E MajorE
I've got those sit down, can't cry
D MajorD       F#F#    B minorBm
Oh Lord
I'm gonna die blues


♫ Verse :
B minorBm            E MajorE
Now, the sun comes along
           B minorBm
Oh Lord, it lights up the day
B minorBm
Then when he gets tired
   FF         B minorBm
He slides on over the way
B minorBm
Oh Lord, it's east to the west
      FF
He get's born ev'ry day


♫ Chorus:
              E MajorE
But Lord, look at me here
            D MajorD    E MajorE
Oh
I'm rooted like a tree here
          B minorBm    E MajorE
Oh
I've got those sit down, can't cry
        F#F#    B minorBm
Oh Lord
I'm gonna die blues

♫ Verse :
B minorBm        E MajorE
Now
I had a man
         B minorBm
He and he lived in a mine
B minorBm
Now, he never saw the sun
   FF            B minorBm
But Lord, he never stopped tryin'
         FF      B minorBm
Then one day my man up and died

              E MajorE
I said my man up and died
        B minorBm      E MajorE
Oh yeah, my man up and died
        D MajorD
Oh well, he wanted to fly
     FF           B minorBm
And the only way to fly was to die



♫ Verse :
      B minorBm       E MajorE
There's a high flyin' bird
        B minorBm     E MajorE
Way up in the sky
    B minorBm         FF
And I wonder does he look down
       B minorBm
As he flies on by
                FF
Well, he's ridin' on the air
        B minorBm
So easy in the sky


♫ Chorus:
              E MajorE
But Lord, look at me here
            D MajorD    E MajorE
Oh
I'm rooted like a tree here
        B minorBm    E MajorE
I've got those sit down, can't cry
D MajorD       F#F#    B minorBm
Oh Lord
I'm gonna die blues