Yellow bird

 

      C                     G                      C

1. Yellow bird, up high in banana tree,

                              G                       C

    yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.      

     F                              C

    Did your lady friend leave the nest again,

     G                            C

    oh, how very sad, make me feel so bad,

      F                           C                        G                                    C

    you could fly away, in the sky away, you`re more lucky than me.

 

C                          G            G7                            C

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

                                         G

    we all we have these pretty girl,

G7                                                        C

    they leave the nest - and they fly away.

 

       C                    G                      C

2. Yellow bird, up high in banana tree,

                              G                       C

    yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.

 

       F                                C

    Black and yellow you, like banana, too,

G                                 C

    you better fly away, in the sky away.

            F                                           C

    The picker come and soon, he`ll pick from night to noon,

G                                         C

    he might pick you some day.

 

  C                         G             G7                                 C

3.   Wish I was a yellow bird, I   could fly away with you,

                             G              G7                                              C

    but I am not a yellow bird,     so here I sit - nothing else to do.

      C                     G                      C

    Yellow bird, up high in banana tree,

                              G                       C

    yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.

 

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

 

    (Roger Whittaker)