Written by Norman Luboff, Marilyn Keith and Alan Bergman
D Fdim D A7 D Yellow bird, up high in banana tree D Fdim D D A7 D D7 Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me G G/F# Em7 D D7M D6 Did your lady friend leave the nest again A7 Em7 A7 D D7M D7 That is very sad, makes me feel so bad G G/F# Em7 D F#m Bm7 You can fly away, in the sky away A7 Em7 A7 D You're more lucky than me D D7 G Em7 A7 Em7 Gdim D I also have a pretty girl she's not with me today D D7 G Em7 They're all the same, the pretty girls A7 Gdim A7 A7/13 A7 D They tend the nest, then they fly away D Fdim D A7 D Yellow bird, up high in banana tree D Fdim D A7 D D7 Yel - low bird, you sit all alone like me G G/F# Em7 D D7M D6 Better fly away, in the sky away A7 Em7 A7 D D7M D7 Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon G G/F# Em7 D D7M D6 Black and yellow you, like banana too A7 A7 A7/13 A7 D They might pick you some day D D7 G Em7 A7 Em7 Gdim D Wish that I were a yellow bird I fly away with you D D7 G Em7 But I am not a yellow bird A7 Gdim A7 A7/13 A7 D So here I sit, nothing else to do D Fdim D Fdim D Fdim D Yellow bird, yellow bird, yellow bird
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