There's a high flyin' bird. Way way up in the sky. And I wonder if she looks down. As she goes on by?. Well she's floating so free in the sky.. Oh look at me here. I'm just rooted like a tree here. Got those sit-down. Can't cry Oh Lord gonna die blues. I'm gonna die blues. Well the sun it comes up and lights up the day. And then when she gets tired Lord he goes on down his way. From the east and to the west. She meets God every day.. But look at me here. I'm rooted like a tree here. I Got those sit-down can't cry. Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues. I'm gonna die blues. Well I once knew a man. He worked in the mine. Well he never saw the sun. But then he never stopped trying. Then came one day that man he up and died. Yeah he up and he died now.. He up and he died. Well the only way to fly. And the only way to fly is dying. Lord I'm gonna die. There's a high flyin' bird. Way up in the sky. And I wonder if she looks down as she flys on by?. She's flying so free and easy in the sky.. Look at me here. I'm just rooted like a tree here. I Got those sit-down can't cry. Oh Lord I'm gonna die blues.'. Lord I'm gonna die blues...