...FLYIN' HIGH (IN THE FRIENDLY SKY)... by Marvin Gaye
---------------------------------------...............

*from 'What's Going On' (1971)*


Intro:


 Ooh, ooh, ooh

, ooh, ooh, oo

h, woo, ooh...

Verse 1:


 Flying high i

n the friendly

 sky,
Flying high, without ever leavin' the ground, no.
Rest of the folks are tired and weary,
Oh Lord, and have laid their bodies down.


 I go the plac

e where danger

 awaits me,

 And it's boun

d to forsake m

e.
           
 So stupid min

    
ded; I can't h

elp it. Oh yah

, so stupid mi

nded.
           
 But I go craz

          
y, when I can'

t find it.

Chorus 1:

        
 In the mornin

  
g, I'll be alr

ight, my frien

d.
         
 But soon the 

        
night, will br

        
ing the pains,

 the pain, oh 

pain.

Verse 2:


 Flying high i

n the friendly

 sky,
Flying high, without ever leavin' the ground.
And I ain't seen nothing but trouble, baby,
Nobody really understands, no no.

           
 And I go to t

              
he place, wher

              
e the good fee

       
lin' a-waits m

e;
Self-destruction in my hand.
           
Oh Lord, so st

     
upid minded,
           
 Oh, but I go 

              
crazy, when I 


can't find it.

Chorus 2:

        
 Well, I know 

    
I'm hooked, my

 friend,
       
 To the boy, w

          
ho makes slave

  
s out of men.

 And oh, belie

ve me...

Coda:


 Flying high i

n a friendly s

ky, oh baby, f

lyin' high.

(Fade)


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Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)