yellow bird
up high in banana tree

yellow bird

you sit all alone like me

did your lady friend leave your nest again
that is very sad
makes me feel so bad
you can fly away
in the sky away
you're more lucky than me

i also had a pretty girl

she's not with me today

they're all de same
the pretty girls
take tenderness

then they fly away

yellow bird

up high in banana tree

yellow bird

you sit all alone like me

let her fly away
in the sky away

pick a town and soon
pick from night to noon
black and yellow
you like banana too
they might pick you someday

wish that i were a yellow bird

i'd fly away with you

but i am not a yellow bird

so here i sit
nothin' else to do

yellow bird

yellow bird

yellow bird