Yellow Bird

Yellow Bird:Kingston Trio.

Recorded in 1958.



INTRO: D G A D



CHORUS:

D               A              D

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.

D                A                  D

Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.



#1.

G                     D

Did your lady friend, leave the nest again?

A                 D

That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.

G                 D

You can fly away, in the sky away..

A                      D

you're more lucky than me.



#2.

D             A                                 D

I also have a pretty girl, she's not with me, today.

D                         G             A

They're all the same, the pretty girls..make them the nest..

               D

then they fly away.



CHORUS:

D               A              D

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.

D                A                  D

Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.



#3.

G                D

Better fly away, in the sky away.

A                   D

Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon.

G                     D

Black on yellow, you, like banana, too.

A                       D

They might pick you someday.



#4.

D                  G            A                 D

Wish that I were a yellow bird..I'd fly away with you.

D              G                A

But I am not a yellow bird..so, here I sit, nothing 

        D

else to do.



OUTRO:

D            

Yellow bird..yellow bird..yellow bird..



yellow bird..yellow bird..(Fade.)





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