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Yellow Bird:  The Paragons
 
INTRO:  Capo 5 F  C  G  C  F  C  G  C  
 
CHORUS:
 C               G              C 
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
 C                G                  C 
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
 
 F                     C 
Did your lady friend, leave the nest again?
 G                 C 
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
 F                 C 
You can fly away, in the sky away..
 G                      C 
you're more lucky than me.
 
 C             F            G7                   C 
I also have a pretty girl, she's not with me, today.
 C                         F             
They're all the same, the pretty girls.. 
 G                                        C 
Make them leave the nest..then they fly away.
 
CHORUS:
 C               G              C 
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
 C                G                  C 
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
 
 F                     C 
Did your lady friend, leave the nest again?
 G                 C 
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
 F                 C 
You can fly away, in the sky away..
 G                      C 
you're more lucky than me.

 C                  F            G7                 C 
Wish that I were a yellow bird.. I'd fly away with you.
 C              F               G                          C 
But I am not a yellow bird..so here I sit, nothing else to do. 


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


(pick intro thru verse)
 F                C 
Better fly away, in the sky away.
 G                   C 
Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon.
 F                     C 
Black on yellow, you, like banana, too.
 G                       C 
They might pick you someday.
 

 
OUTRO:
 C 
Yellow bird..yellow bird..yellow bird..
 
yellow bird..yellow bird..(Fade.)