There's a high flyin' bird up in the sky
And I wonder if that bird looks down as he flies by
Riding on the air so easy in the sky 
 [bad word] along …. lights up the sky
And when he gets tired he slides on over the way
East to the west he gets gone every day 
 [bad word]  
But lord look at me here
Rooted like a tree here 
I got the sit down, can't cry
Oh, lord I'm gonna die blues 

I used to have an old man …. he worked in the mines
He never saw the sunlight by oh lord he kept on a-tryin'
Then one day my daddy he up and died 

My old man up and died
My daddy up and died
He had to fly away
And the only way to fly was to die 

There's a high flyin' bird up in the sky
And I wonder if that bird looks down as he flies by
Riding on the air so easy in the sky 
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