Yellow Bird

YELLOW BIRD
W: Marilyn Keith & Alan Bergman
M: Norman Luboff
The Mills Brothers, Chris Isaak
(Jamaican Trad.)
Key: F

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Yel-low bird, up high in ba-na-na tree.
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Yel-low bird, you sit all a-lone like me.
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Did your la-dy frien’ 
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leave the nest a-gain?
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Dat is ver-y sad, Make me feel so bad.
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You can fly a-way, In the sky a-way
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You more luck-y dan me.

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I al-so have a pret-ty gal,
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she not with me to-day.
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Dey all de same, de pret-ty gal
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Make dem de nest. Den dey fly a-way.

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Better fly away, In the sky away,
Picker coming soon, Pick from night to noon.
Black and yellow you, Like banana too
They may pick you some day.

Wish that I was a yellow bird,
I fly away with you.
But I am not a yellow bird
So I sit, nothing else to do.

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Yel-low bird
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Yel-low bird
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Yel-low bird