The Kingston Trio – Yellow Bird (Guitar)

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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.