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Yellow Bird
Words & Music by Norman Luboff, Marilyn Keith, Alan BergmanRecorded by The Brothers Four, 1960*
Dalt Fdim(III) Dalt D A7alt A7 D Yel - low bird, up high in banana tree. Dalt Fdim(III) Dalt D A7alt A7 D D7 Yel - low bird, you sit all alone like me. G G/F# Em7 D DM7 D6 Did your lady friend leave the nest again? A7 Em7 A7alt D DM7 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 to - day. D D7 G Em7 They're all the same, the pretty girls. . . A7 Gdim A7 A7/6 A7 D They tend the nest, then they fly a - way. Dalt Fdim(III) Dalt D A7alt A7 D Yel - low bird, up high in banana tree. Dalt Fdim(III) Dalt D A7alt A7 D D7 Yel - low bird, you sit all alone like me. G G/F# Em7 D DM7 D6 Better fly away, in the sky away, A7 Em7 A7alt D DM7 D7 Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon. G G/F# Em7 D DM7 D6 Black and yellow you, like banana too -- A7 A7alt A7/6 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 A7/6 A7 D So here I sit, nothing else to do. Dalt Fdim(III) Dalt Dalt Fdim(III) Dalt Dalt Fdim(III) Dalt Yel - low bird, yel - low bird, yel - low bird
* Though Arthur Lyman's 1961 instrumental version is much more widely known -- it reached #4 on the charts -- I found myself appreciating the clean simplicity the gave the song. Thanks to recent visitor Tom K., I finally found out that The Brothers Four recorded this some six years earlier than I had previously believed.