Gm  Gm7 Cm Gm
Gm  Cm  Gm Gm


[Verse 1]
Gm                    Cm                 Gm
There's a high flyin' bird way up in the sky
Gm                  Cm
And I wonder if she looks down on me as she flies on by?
Gm                             D           Gm
While she's riding so free and easy in the sky

[Verse 2]
C
But look at me here
               Gm
Lord, I'm just rooted like a tree here
Gm                                Cm          Gm
And I got the sit-down-can't fly, Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues


[Verse 3]
Gm                              Cm            Gm
Well the sun comes along and it lights up the day
Gm                                C            D
Well it brings the daytime and it goes on it's way
Gm                   Cm              Gm
From the East to the West it travels every day


[Verese 4]
Gm
But look at me here
Cm                           Gm
Lord, I'm just rooted like a tree here
Gm                           C                D
And I got the sit-down-can't fly, Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues


[Verse 5]
Gm                 Cm
Well I once knew a man
Gm
He worked down in the mine
Gm                                             Cm
Well he never saw the sun and he never stopped crying
Gm               Fm           Gm
Then one day his woman up and died
Gm       Cm        Gm
She just upped and died

[Verse 6]
Gm                          Cm
You know she just upped and dies
Cm    Cm
Well, she wanted to fly
Cm  C                      D
The only way to fly was to die
D         Gm          Cm                 Gm
There's a high flyin' bird way up in the sky
Gm                  Cm                F        D
And I wonder if she looks down as she flies on by?
D           Gm        Cm          Gm
While she's riding so easy in the sky


[Bridge]
Gm             Cm
But look at me here
Gm             C
Lord, I'm just rooted like a tree here
C             Gm                  Cm                    Gm
And I got the sit-down-can't fly, Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues


[Otro]
Gm                 Cm
Lord,I'm gonna die soon
Gm                 Cm
Lord,I'm gonna die soon
Gm                 Cm
Lord,I'm gonna die soon