Yellow Bird
Abbey Lincoln
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Tom : D
D Fdim D A7 D
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree
D Fdim D D A7 D D7
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me
G G/F# Em7 D D7M D6
Did your lady friend leave the nest again
A7 Em7 A7 D D7M 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 today
D D7 G Em7
They're all the same, the pretty girls
A7 Gdim
A7 A7/13 A7 D
They tend the nest, then they fly away
D Fdim D A7 D
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree
D Fdim D A7 D D7
Yel - low bird, you sit all alone like me
G G/F# Em7 D D7M D6
Better fly away, in the sky away
A7 Em7 A7 D D7M D7
Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon
G G/F# Em7 D D7M D6
Black and yellow you, like banana too
A7
A7/13 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 A7/13 A7 D
So here I sit, nothing else to do
D Fdim D Fdim D Fdim D
Yellow bird, yellow bird, yellow bird
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