Flight (The Higher We Fly)
Words by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., John Denver, Joe Henry
Music by Lee Holdridge
Adapted by the poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
from It's About Time (1983)
Intro:
F Am/E Dm Db+5 F/C Bbmaj7 Gm7 C7
F Am/E Dm F/C
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
Bbmaj Am7 Gm7 C7
And danced the sky on laughter silvered wings
F Am/E Dm Db+5
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Bbmaj7 Gm7 C7 F
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
Bb G C Bb F Abmaj7
I've wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence
Db+5 Csus4 C7 F Am/E Dm
Hovering there I've chased the shouting winds aloft
F/C Bb Gm7 C7 F
And flung my eager craft through footless halls of air
Bbmaj7 Fmaj7/A
Chorus: The higher we fly, the farther we go
Gm7 Gm7/C F
The closer we are to each other
Bbmaj7 Fmaj7/A
The darker the night, the brighter the star
Gm7 Gm7/C F Am/E Dm Db+5
In peace go my sisters and brother
F/C Bbmaj7 Gm7 C7
F Am/E Dm F/C
Up, up, the long delirious burning blue
Bbmaj7 Am7 Gm
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
C7 F Am/E Dm
Where never lark nor even eagle flew
Db+5 F/C G C Bb
And while with silent lifting mind I trod
F Am/E Dm F/C
The high untrespassed sanctity of space
Bb C9(no 3rd) F
Put out my hand and touched the face of God
Bbmaj7 Fmaj7/A
Chorus: The higher we fly, the farther we go
Gm7 Gm7/C F
The closer we are to each other
Bbmaj7 Fmaj7/A
The darker the night, the brighter the star
Gm7 Gm7/C F Am/E Dm Db+5
In peace go my sisters and brother
Gm7 C7 F Fsus2 Fadd2
Copyright 1983 by Cherry Mountain Music