[Intro] 
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[Verse 1]
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Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
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Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
[Chorus]
EmD
Did you lady friend leave the nest again?
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That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
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You can fly away, in the sky away.
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Your more lucky than me.
[Verse 2]
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I also had a pretty girl, she's not with me today.
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hey're all the same those pretty girls.
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Take tenderness, then they fly away.
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Yellow Bird, yellow bird.
[Chorus]
EmD
Did you lady friend leave the nest again?
  A    D
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
 Em    D
You can fly away, in the sky away.
  A  D
Your more lucky than me.
[Verse 3]
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Wish that I were a yellow bird, I'd fly away with you.
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But I am not a yellow bird, So here I sit.
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Nothing I can do.
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Yellow bird, yellow bird.