Yellow bird up high in banana tree Yellow bird you sit all alone like me Did your lady friend leave your nest again? That is very sad, makes me feel so bad! You can fly away in the sky away You're more luck than me Yellow bird up high in banana tree Yellow bird you sit all alone like me I also had a pretty girl, she's not with me todday They're all the same the pretty girls Take tenderness then they fly away Yellow bird up high in banana tree Yellow bird you sit all alone like me Let her fly away in the sky away Pick a town and soon, take from night to noon Black and yellow you, like banana too The might pick you someday Wish that I were a yellow bird. I'd fly away with you But I am not a yellow bird So, here I sit, nothing else to do Yellow bird Yellow bird Yellow bird