Yellow Bird chords by The Kingston Trio

Chords with lyrics

Yellow Bird:Kingston Trio.
Recorded in 1958.

INTRO: D MajorD

CHORUS:
D MajorD
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
D MajorD
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.

#1.
D MajorD
Did your lady friend, leave the nest again?
D MajorD
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
D MajorD
You can fly away, in the sky away..
D MajorD
you're more lucky than me.

#2.
D MajorD
I also have a pretty girl, she's not with me, today.
A augmentedA
They're all the same, the pretty girls..make them the nest..
        D MajorD
then they fly away.
CHORUS:
D MajorD
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
D MajorD
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.

#3.
D MajorD
Better fly away, in the sky away.
D MajorD
Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon.
D MajorD
Black on yellow, you, like banana, too.
D MajorD
They might pick you someday.

#4.
D MajorD
Wish that I were a yellow bird..I'd fly away with you.
A augmentedA
But I am not a yellow bird..so, here I sit, nothing
    D MajorD
else to do.

OUTRO:
D MajorD
Yellow bird..yellow bird..yellow bird..

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


A augmentedA fifties smash from Kraziekhat.