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 And I got the sit-down-can't fly, Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues Well the sun comes along and it lights up the day Well it brings the daytime and it goes on it's 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 Well I once knew a man He worked down in the mine Well he never saw the sun and he never stopped crying Then one day his woman up and died She just upped and died You know she just upped and dies Well, she wanted to fly The only way to fly was to die There's a high flyin' bird way up in the sky And I wonder if she looks down as she flies on by? While she's riding so easy in the sky (X2) 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