Roger Whittaker
Yellow Bird
(1975)

(chanson haïtienne traditionnelle)

C  F  C  G7

C               G              C
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree
C                G                  C
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me

  F                    C
  Did your lady friend leave the nest again
  G                 C
  Oh, how very sad, make me feel so bad
  F                   C               
  You could fly away, in the sky away
  G                      C
  You're more lucky than me

    C                 F           
    I also have a pretty girl
    G                   C
    She's not with me today
            C                  F
    They're all the same these pretty girls
    G!                                  C
    They leave the nest - and they fly away

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me

  Black and yellow you, like banana, too
  You better fly away, in the sky away
  The picker come and soon, he'll pick from night to noon
  He might pick you some day

    I wish that I was a yellow bird
    I could fly away with you
    But I am not a yellow bird
    So here I sit - nothing else to do

C
Yellow bird
C
Yellow bird
C  B   C
Yellow bird



( il existe beaucoup de variations, par exemple:

  Arthur Lyman: juste mélodie, vibraphone

  Mills Brothers: C  B♭

  Merrymen: C  Dm  G )