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
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 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
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 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