Elton John – High Flying Bird (Guitar Live)

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[Intro] Ab Gb Db Gb Db x2 [Verse 1]
           Ab                               Db   Dbadd9  Db
You wore a little cross of gold around your neck

  Ab                            Eb
I saw it as you flew between my reason

       Bbm                     Bbm/C    Db   Dbadd9  Db
Like a raven in the night time when you left

         Ab                                Db   Dbadd9  Db
I wear a chain upon my wrist that bears no name

Ab                     Eb
You touched it and you wore it

        Bbm             Bbm/C          Db
And you kept it in your pillow all the same
[Chorus]
Db Dbadd9 Db     Ab       Absus4     Ab  Ebsus4/Ab  Eb
My high   flying bird has flown from out my         arms

                     Bbm
I thought myself her keeper

                        Eb
She thought I meant her harm

    Eb7               Ab
She thought I was the archer

  Absus4  Ab  Ebsus4/Ab  Eb
A weather man of         words

                  Bbm   Bbm/Ab  Gb  Db
But I could never shoot down    Ohh Ohh

   Dbadd9 Db     Ab
My high   flying bird
[Link] Ab Gb Db Gb Db [Verse 2]
    Ab                  Absus4   Ab       Db                      Dbadd9  Db
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                Bbm/C    Db
Mmm     In the foreign field of death

   Ab             Absus4  Ab     Db                  Dbadd9  Db
Oh wouldn't it be wonder  ful is all I heard you say

          Ab                                            Eb
You never closed your eyes at night and learned to love daylight

Bbm         Bbm/C  Db
Instead you moved  away
[Chorus]
Db Dbadd9 Db     Ab       Absus4     Ab  Ebsus4/Ab  Eb
My high   flying bird has flown from out my         arms

                     Bbm
I thought myself her keeper

                        Eb
She thought I meant her harm

    Eb7               Ab
She thought I was the archer

  Absus4  Ab  Ebsus4/Ab  Eb
A weather man of         words

                  Bbm   Bbm/Ab  Gb  Db
But I could never shoot down    Ohh Ohh

   Dbadd9 Db     Ab
My high   flying bird

    Absus4     Ab  Ebsus4/Ab  Eb
has flown from out my         arms

                     Bbm
I thought myself her keeper

                        Eb
She thought I meant her harm

    Eb7               Ab
She thought I was the archer

  Absus4  Ab  Ebsus4/Ab  Eb
A weather man of         words

                  Bbm   Bbm/Ab  Gb  Db
But I could never shoot down    Ohh Ohh

   Dbadd9 Db     Ab
My high   flying bird
[Outro]
   Ab           Absus4  Ab     Db   Dbadd9  Db
My high-flying, high   -flying bird

   Ab           Absus4  Ab     Db   Dbadd9  Db
My high-flying, high   -flying bird

   Ab           Absus4  Ab     Db   Dbadd9  Db
My high-flying, high   -flying bird

   Ab           Absus4  Ab     Db    Ab
My high-flying, high   -flying bird