High Flying Bird

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player

Ab  F#/C#  C#  F#/C#  C#

        Ab                                          C#
You wore a little cross of gold around you neck,
  Ab                                             Eb
I saw it as you flew between my reason.
          Bbm                                               C#
Like a ravon in the night time when you left.
              Ab                                                 C#
I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name,
Ab                                 Eb 
You touched it and you wore it,
               Bbm                                       C#
And you kept it in your pillow, all the same.
 
                         Ab                                         C#
My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms,
                                 Bbm
I thought myself her keeper,
                                        Eb
She thought I meant her harm,
                                     Ab
She thought I was the archer,
                             C#
A weather man of words,
                          Bbm   Ab   F#        C#
But I could never shoot down,
                          Ab
My high-flying bird.
 
       Ab                                                         C#               
The white walls of your dressing room are stained in scarlet red.
        Ab                                              Eb
You bled upon the cold stone like a young man.
Bbm                             C#
In the foreign field of death.
Ab                                        C#
Wouldn't it be wonderful is all I have to say,
                  Ab                                                                Eb
You never closed your eyes at night and learnt to love daylight.
Bbm                        C#
Instead, you moved away.