Yellow Bird

YELLOW BIRD –

Monton and Durand

CHORUS: 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, makes me feel so bad. You can fly away, in the sky away – you’re more lucky than me. I also have a pretty girl, she’s not with me today. They’re all the same the pretty girls - take tenderness, then they fly away. CHORUS: Yellow bird, up high in banana tree Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me. Let her fly away, in the sky away. Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon. Black and yellow you, like banana too, he might pick you someday. Wish that I were a yellow bird, I’d fly away with you. But I am not a yellow bird, so here I sit, nothin’ else to do. CHORUS: Yellow bird, up high in banana tree Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me. Yellow bird, yellow bird, yellow bird-----Per Wikipedia: Yellow Bird is the 19th-century Haitian song “Choucoune,” composed by Michel Mauléart Monton with lyrics from a poem by Oswald Durand. It was rewritten with English lyrics in the 20th century as "Yellow Bird." The 1883 Choucoune is a lyrical poem that praises the beauty of a Haitian woman of that nickname. The English rendering of Yellow Bird first appeared on the album Calypso Holiday, a 1957 release by the Norman Luboff Choir, with Luboff having arranged the song in the calypso style that become popular in the Englishspeaking world in the mid-1950s.