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High Flying Bird

Don't Shoot Me (I'm Only The Piano Player) · Elton John

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AbGb/DbDbGb/DbDb
You wore a Ablittle cross of gold around youDb neck,
I Absaw it as you flew between my Ebreason.
Like a Bbmraven in the night time when you lDbeft.
I wear a Abchain upon my wrist that bears no nDbame,
AbYou touched it and you Ebwore it,
And you Bbmkept it in your pillow, all the Dbsame.
My high-flying Abbird has flown from Cout myDb arms,
I thought myself her Bbmkeeper,
She thought I meant her Ebharm,
She Db/Ebthought I was the Abarcher,
A weather Cman ofDb words,
But I could Fm/Cnever Bbmshoot Db/Abdown, Gb Db
My high-flying Abbird. Gb/Db Db Gb/Db Db
The Abwhite walls of your dressing room are Dbstained in scarlet red.
You Abbled upon the cold stone like a young Ebman.
BbmIn the foreign field of Dbdeath.
AbWouldn't it be wonderful is Dball I have to say,
You never Abclosed your eyes at night and learnt to love Ebdaylight.
BbmInstead, you moved Dbaway.
My high-flying Abbird has flown from Cout myDb arms,
I thought myself her Bbmkeeper,
She thought I meant her Ebharm,
She Db/Ebthought I was the Abarcher,
A weather Cman ofDb words,
But I could Fm/Cnever Bbmshoot Db/Abdown, Gb Db
My high-flying Abbird. Gb/Db Db Gb/Db Db
My high flying, high flying bird

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Visitor comments from the original site (2009–2021).

  • dave aranguren · 2010-09-21

    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!

  • mg · 2010-11-19

    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. mg

  • Alex · 2012-02-19

    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)

  • gary hill · 2012-05-10

    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

  • mg · 2013-06-02

    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!

  • Carol · 2016-10-15

    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.

  • Elton John Chords · 2016-10-18

    It is a very wonderful song! It was really nice to find him performing the song live in modern years on youtube!