Yellow Bird
(same tune as Don't Ever Love Me)

Words and Music by :  Irving Burgie
Arranged and adapted by:
Publisher:  

Recorded by
The Brothers Four CCM040-2, CS8197, CS8603, FE1434CD, FE1435CD, 17023, 501780-3, 36AP2459, SWCD1001,
Irving Burgie 52222, VLT15170
Greg MacDonald GMM1996
Lord Bill Banes CBS S52369    
Lord Busta & The Caribbean Royals NSPL-18245    
The Merrymen MM012, CD1047, FCD1030, MM1003, MM1037, MM1042, MMCD1049
The Norman Luboff Choir CL1000, CL1357, COL6061,
P6S5532,
The Phoenix Singers W1485
Jan Lindblad EMI 136475-2  
Nina & Frederik Metronome HLP-10032    
Walter Raim LRP3347
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra SHCD161  
Simons MLPCD3366    
Delta Rhythm Boys    
Igniters Steelband    
Steelasophical    
Ivan Chin    
Roger Whittaker    
Sunshine Steel Band    
Zambesi    

Lyrics:

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. 

I also had a pretty gal 
She not with me today 
They all the same, the pretty gal 
Make 'em the nest. Then they fly away. 

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 you, Like banana too 
They may 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.