Yellow Bird:Kingston Trio.
Recorded in 1958.

INTRO: D G A D

CHORUS:
D (xx0232@1)             A (x02220@1)            DYellow (xx0232@1)bird, up high in banana tree.
D (xx0232@1)              A (x02220@1)                DYellow (xx0232@1)bird, you sit all alone like me.

#1.
G (320003@1)                   DDid (xx0232@1)your lady friend, leave the nest again?
A (x02220@1)               DThat (xx0232@1)is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
G (320003@1)               DYou (xx0232@1)can fly away, in the sky away..
A (x02220@1)                    Dyou're (xx0232@1)more lucky than me.

#2.
D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)                               DI (xx0232@1)also have a pretty girl, she's not with me, today.
D (xx0232@1)                       G (320003@1)           AThey're (x02220@1)all the same, the pretty girls..make them the nest..
               Dthen (xx0232@1)they fly away.

CHORUS:
D (xx0232@1)             A (x02220@1)            DYellow (xx0232@1)bird, up high in banana tree.
D (xx0232@1)              A (x02220@1)                DYellow (xx0232@1)bird, you sit all alone like me.

#3.
G (320003@1)              DBetter (xx0232@1)fly away, in the sky away.
A (x02220@1)                 DPicker (xx0232@1)coming soon, pick from night to noon.
G (320003@1)                   DBlack (xx0232@1)on yellow, you, like banana, too.
A (x02220@1)                     DThey (xx0232@1)might pick you someday.

#4.
D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)          A (x02220@1)               DWish (xx0232@1)that I were a yellow bird..I'd fly away with you.
D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)              ABut (x02220@1)I am not a yellow bird..so, here I sit, nothing 
        Delse (xx0232@1)to do.

OUTRO:
D (xx0232@1)          
Yellow bird..yellow bird..yellow bird..

yellow bird..yellow bird..(Fade.)

A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
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