Chords for Richie Havens - High Flying Bird - How Late It Is (1969)

He [G] became a professional gospel singer at 14 and graduated to Greenwich Village where he taught himself the guitar.
He's here now for his first television appearance in this country to sing High [A] Flying Bird. _
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ There's a high [Dm] flying bird, _ [D] flying way [Am] up in the sky
[D] _ _ _ [Am] _ [C] And I wonder if she [Bm] looks down _ [A] as she goes on by
_ _ _ She's flying so [G] friendly, see, [D] [E] in the sky
Oh Lord, [Am] look at me [Dm] here
Hey, I'm rooted [Am] like a [D] tree here
Stop, [C] look, sit [Em] down, [A] damn dry
Oh [D] Lord, I'm [A] gonna die blue, _ [Am] _ _ _ [Am] die blue
_ _ _ Now the sun, [Dm] it comes up and it lights up [Am] the day
_ _ _ _ _ [C] And when he gets tired, [E] Lord, he goes down, [A] down his [D] way
_ _ To the east and [G] to the west, he [E] meets God every day
_ _ [D] Lord, [Am] look at me here
[Dm] Hey, I'm rooted [Am] like a tree _ here
_ Stop, look, sit [E] down, damn dry
Oh Lord, [A] I'm gonna die blue, _ [Am] _ _ _ _
die blue _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] I had a [Dm] woman, _ Lord, she lived [Am] down by the mine
[D] _ _ _ [Dm] She [C] ain't never seen this [Em] done, oh Lord, never [Am] stopped trying
[D] _ Then [Am] _ one day, [G] my old woman, up [E] and died
Oh _ Lord, [A] she up and died [Dm] now
Hey, she just [Am] up and [D] died
_ _ _ Well, she [A] wanted to fly, the only [E] way to [A] fly is die, die, die _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Dm] There's a high flying bird, flying way up [Am] in the sky
_ _ _ _ [C] And I wonder if she [Bm] looks down _ [D] [A] as she goes on by
_ _ She's flying so [G] friendly deep [D] [E] in the sky
Oh Lord, look [Am] at me here
[Dm] Hey, I'm rooted [Am] like a tree [D] here
_ _ [A] Stop, look, sit down, damn dry
Oh [F#m] Lord, I'm gonna [Am] die blue
_ _ _ Stop, [C] look, [Em] sit down, [A] damn dry
Oh Lord, I'm gonna die [A] blue
_ _ _ Yeah, [Am] yeah, _ yeah
_ _ Hey, _ _ _ hey, _ hey
_ [Dm] _ Yeah, _ _ [A] yeah, _ [D] _ yeah, _ _ [A] yeah
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