Kingston Trio - Yellow Bird

yellow bird : kingston trio .
recorded in 1958 .

intro : D G A D

chorus :
D A D
yellow bird , up high in banana tree .
D A D
yellow bird , you sit all alone like me .

#1 .
G D
did your lady friend , leave the nest again?
A D
that is very sad , makes me feel so bad .
G D
you can fly away , in the sky away . .
A D
you’re more lucky than me .

#2 .
D A D
i also have a pretty girl , she’s not with me , today .
D G A
they’re all the same , the pretty girls . . make them the nest . .
D
then they fly away .

chorus :
D A D
yellow bird , up high in banana tree .
D A D
yellow bird , you sit all alone like me .

#3 .
G D
better fly away , in the sky away .
A D
picker coming soon , pick from night to noon .
G D
black on yellow , you , like banana , too .
A D
they might pick you someday .

#4 .
D G A D
wish that i were a yellow bird . . i’d fly away with you .
D G A
but i Am not a yellow bird . . so , here i sit , nothing
D
else to do .

outro :
D
yellow bird . . yellow bird . . yellow bird . .

yellow bird . . yellow bird . . ( fade . )

a fifties smash from kraziekhat .