Ab
Gb/Db
Db
Gb/Db
Db
You wore a
Ab
little cross of gold around you
Db
neck,
I
Ab
saw it as you flew between my
Eb
reason.
Like a
Bbm
raven in the night time when you l
Db
eft.
I wear a
Ab
chain upon my wrist that bears no n
Db
ame,
Ab
You touched it and you
Eb
wore
it,
And you
Bbm
kept it in your pillow, all the
Db
same.
{soc}
My high-flying
Ab
bird has flown from
C
out
my
Db
arms,
I thought myself her
Bbm
keeper,
She thought I meant her
Eb
harm,
She
Db/Eb
thought I was the
Ab
archer,
A weather
C
man
of
Db
words,
But I could
Fm/C
never
Bbm
shoot
Db/Ab
down,
Gb
Db
My high-flying
Ab
bird.
Gb/Db
Db
Gb/Db
Db
{eoc}
The
Ab
white walls of your dressing room are
Db
stained in scarlet red.
You
Ab
bled upon the cold stone like a young
Eb
man.
Bbm
In the foreign field of
Db
death.
Ab
Wouldn’t it be wonderful is
Db
all I have to say,
You never
Ab
closed your eyes at night and learnt to love
Eb
daylight.
Bbm
Instead, you moved
Db
away.
{soc}
My high-flying
Ab
bird has flown from
C
out
my
Db
arms,
I thought myself her
Bbm
keeper,
She thought I meant her
Eb
harm,
She
Db/Eb
thought I was the
Ab
archer,
A weather
C
man
of
Db
words,
But I could
Fm/C
never
Bbm
shoot
Db/Ab
down,
Gb
Db
My high-flying
Ab
bird.
Gb/Db
Db
Gb/Db
Db
{eoc}
My high flying, high flying bird
C# should be written as Db (and F# should be Gb)…Db is the four chord for Ab. If it were written in G#, then C# would be the way to write it.
Thanks so very much for your efforts!
Dave, Thanks for pointing that one out. I’ve updated the transcription so it should look proper now.
This will surely decrease the amount of confusion people may have been experiencing.
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The first line of the lyric should read “your neck” not
“you neck” (just nit picking on an otherwise excellent effort to
present this information)
What’s with all those flats. that’s not the way I learned it. I wouldn’t like to play barre chords all the way through it. I play it all in the 1st position. who ever wrote out this method was to lazy to write it in an easier way. I start it in G, all you have to do is drop everything down a half step GH s
Gary feel free to play it in whatever key you want. I am a piano player and this is the key I play it in so that is why I listed it this way to share with everyone else. Enjoy the music!
I love this song! Reminds me of when I was little. My best friend Kim bought me the record album for my 12th birthday. It brings me back! And I still remember all the words.
It is a very wonderful song! It was really nice to find him performing the song live in modern years on youtube!