Yellow bird up high in banana tree.
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Did your lady friend, leave the nest again?
That is very sad, make me feel so bad,
You can fly away, in the sky away
You more lucky than me.

Yellow bird up high in banana tree,
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Better fly away, in the sky away,
Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon,
Black and yellow hue, like banana too,
They might pick you some day.

Wish that I was a yellow bird,
I fly away with you,
But I am not a yellow bird
So here I sit, nothing else to do.

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree,
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Did your lady friend leave the nest again?
That is very sad, make me feel so bad,
You can fly away, in the sky away
You more lucky than me.


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Source: Singing Together, Summer 1976, BBC Publications

Notes:
Acknowlegement is given by the BBC to the publisher Frank Music Company Ltd. Origin is given as Haiti.

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