Have I Achieved High Flight
A simple beautiful poem set to music by Ted Davis with Jay Kaje on vocals.
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Story behind the song
Ted Davis added the refrain "Have I achieved high flight". The remaining lyrics are from the poem "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Ted set the poem to music. John was a WWII pilot and penned this poem after taking his spitfire to 30,000 feet. Search for John or "High Flight" and read more about him.
Lyrics
"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, ?And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; ?Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth, of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things.
Have I achieved high flight (2X)
You have not dreamed, of ?wheeled sword and swung, high in the sunlit silence ?hovering there. I've chased the shouting wind, along, ?and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.
Have I achieved high flight (2X)
"Up, up the long delirious burning blue ?I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, ?where never lark, or even eagle, flew; (2X)
?and, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, ?the high un-trespassed sanctity of space, ?I put out my hand, I put out my hand,
and touched the face of God."
