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Yellow Bird (2-harp version)

by Jamaican trad. folk · posted by waltp

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How to read this tab — notation key
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Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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YELLOW BIRD 2-harp version
W: Marilyn Keith & Alan Bergman 
M: Norman Luboff 
The Mills Brothers, Chris Isaak 
(Jamaican Trad.) 
Key: F
Harps: F, C 

Harp: C
 4  -3   4
 7  -7   7 
Yel-low bird,
Harp: F
2   -2” -2”2  -2”3   2
5   -5  -5 5  -5 6   5
up high in ba-na-na tree. 
harp: C
 4  -3   4
 7  -7   7
Yel-low bird, 
Harp: F

 5  -5  -5  5  -5   6   5
 8  -9  -9  8  -9   9   8
you sit all a-lone like me. 

-3” -3”  -4 -5   -6
-6   -6  -8 -9   -10
Did your la-dy frien’  

  3    3   4   5  6
  6    6   7   8  9   
leave the nest a-gain? 

 3  3  -3 -4 -5    3   3   4   5   6
 6  6  -7 -8 -9    6   6   7   8   9
Dat is ver-y sad, Make me feel so bad. 

-3” -3” -4 -5 -6   3   3   4  5  6
-6  -6  -8 -9 -10  6   6   7  8  9
You can fly a-way, In the sky a-way 

 3   3    -5  5 -4  4
 6   6    -9  8 -8  7
You more luck-y dan me. 


5 6  4   5   6  -5  -6  -4
8 9  7   8   9  -9  -10 -8
I al-so have a pret-ty gal, 

-4  -5   -3  -4 -6  6
-8  -9   -7  -8 -10 9
she not with me to-day. 

 5   6  4   5    6   -5  -6 -4
 8   9  7   8    9   -9 -10 -8
Dey all de same, de pret-ty gal 

 3   -3  -4  6    -5  -5   5 -4  4
 6   -7  -8  9    -9  -9   8 -8  7
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. 
harp: C

 4  -3   4
 7  -7   7
Yel-low bird 

 4  -3   4
 7  -7   7
Yel-low bird 

 4  -3   4
 7  -7   7
Yel-low bird 
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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