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

[Refrão]

      Em                  D 
      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 2: 

      D            A                                D 
      I also had a pretty girl, she's not with me today. 
        D                          A T 
      hey're all the same those pretty girls. 
                                         D 
      Take tenderness, then they fly away. 
       D          A D          A     D 
      Yellow Bird, yellow bird. 
  

[Refrão]

      Em                  D 
      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: 
      D                  A                               D 
      Wish that I were a yellow bird, I'd fly away with you. 
                       A 
      But I am not a yellow bird, So here I sit. 
                      D 
      Nothing I can do. 
      D 
      Yellow bird, yellow bird.