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High-Flying Bird by Elton John - Guitar Chords

Artist Elton John How to play the guitar chord G.jpg How to play the guitar chord C.jpg How to play the guitar chord D.jpg How to play the guitar chord Am.jpg

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            High-Flying Bird
by Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Taken from "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player"

Note: This song was originally played in Ab. I have shifted it down one key to make it
easier to play and sing. If you want it back in its original key, you can always use a
capo or transpose back up.

G   Fma7 C  Fma7 C x 2

           G                                C
You wore a little cross of gold around your neck,
  G                             D
I saw it as you flew between my reasons,
       Am                               C
Like a raven in the night time when you left.
         G                                 C
I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name,
G                      D
You touched it and you wore it,
        Am                             C
And you kept it in your pillow all the same.
               G                          C
My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms,

                     Am
I thought myself her keeper,
                        D
She thought I meant her harm,
                      G
She thought I was the archer,
                 C
A weather man of words,
                  Fma7        C
But I could never shoot down,

               G     Fma7 C  Fma7 C
My high-flying bird.

    G                                     C
The white walls of your dressing room are stained in scarlet red.
    G                               D
You bled upon the cold stone like a young man,
Am                      C
In the foreign field of death.
G                           C
Wouldn't it be wonderful is all I heard you say,

          G                                             D
You never closed your eyes at night and learned to love daylight,
Am                C
Instead you moved away.

               G                          C
My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms,
                     Am
I thought myself her keeper,
                        D
She thought I meant her harm,
                      G
She thought I was the archer,
                 C
A weather man of words,
                  Fma7       C
But I could never shoot down,
               G                          C
My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms,
                     Am
I thought myself her keeper,
                        D
She thought I meant her harm,
                      G
She thought I was the archer,
                 C
A weather man of words,
                  Fma7       C
But I could never shoot down,

               G     Fma7 C  Fma7 C
My high-flying bird.

   G                        C
My high-flying, high-flying bird.
   G                        C
My high-flying, high-flying bird.
   G                        C         G
My high-flying, high-flying bird. 
        

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