INTRO: D G A D
CHORUS: 
DAD Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
DAD Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
 #1. 
GD Did your lady friend, leave the nest again?
AD That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
GD You can fly away, in the sky away..
AD you're more lucky than me.
 #2. 
DAD I also have a pretty girl, she's not with me, today.
DGA They're all the same, the pretty girls..make them the nest..
D then they fly away.
 CHORUS: 
DAD Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
DAD Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
 #3. 
GD Better fly away, in the sky away.
AD Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon.
GD Black on yellow, you, like banana, too.
AD They might pick you someday.
 #4. 
DGAD Wish that I were a yellow bird..I'd fly away with you.
DGA But I am not a yellow bird..so, here I sit, nothing
D else to do.
 OUTRO: 
D Yellow bird..yellow bird..yellow bird..