Willie Nelson Songs - Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground Lyrics

Willie Nelson - Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

Willie Nelson - Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Honeysuckle Rose
Released: 1981

Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground Lyrics

If you had not have fallen
Then I would not have found you
Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
And I patched up your broken wing and hung around a while
Trying to keep your spirits up and your fever down

I knew someday that you would fly away
For love's the greatest healer to be found
So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground

Fly on, fly on past, the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up than see you down
So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground.

So leave me if you need to, I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground.

Writer/s: Nelson, Willie
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

Nelson wrote and performed this song for his starring role as a Country singer in the movie Honeysuckle Rose (1981).

The origins of this song are a little murky. Some fans assume the title angel refers to the Hells Angels biker Charlie Magoo, a friend of Nelson's who was killed, though the singer won't confirm or deny it. He has hinted that it's about his former wife Connie Koepke. (thanks, Kyle - Sparta, NJ)

During live performances, Nelson sometimes dedicates this song to his son Billy, the third child from his first marriage to Martha Matthews, who committed suicide in 1991.

This was Nelson's seventh chart-topping solo hit on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

Bob Dylan covered this song while recording his 1983 album Infidels.

Nelson recorded a live version of this song with Patty Griffin for his 2005 album Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South Asia to aid the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.