High Flight - The Higher We Fly

High Flight - The Higher We Fly - United States Air Force Singing Sergeants/United States Air Force Band/Captain A. Phillip Waite

Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

And danced the sky on laughter silvered wings

Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things

I've wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence

Hovering there

I've chased the shouting winds aloft

And flung my eager craft through footless halls of air

The higher we fly the farther we go

The closer we are to each other

The darker the night the brighter the star

In peace go my sisters and brothers

Up up the long delirious burning blue

I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark nor even eagle flew

And while with silent lifting mind I trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space

Put out my hand and touched the face of God

The higher we fly the farther we go

The closer we are to each other

The darker the night the brighter the star

In peace go my brothers

In peace go my brothers

The higher we fly the farther we go

The closer we are to each other

The darker the night the brighter the star

In peace go my brothers

Ohoo oh oh oh oh