Yellow Bird Ukulele Chords

by The Kingston Trio
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Tuning: G C E A
Capo: no capo
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Chords

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G

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Yellow Bird:Kingston Trio.
Recorded in 1958.
 
INTRO: C F G C
 
CHORUS:
C               G              C
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
C                G                  C
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
 
#1.
F                     C
Did your lady friend, leave the nest again?
G                 C
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad.
F                 C
You can fly away, in the sky away..
G                      C
you're more lucky than me.
 
#2.
C             F            G                     C
I also have a pretty girl, she's not with me, today.
C                         F             G
They're all the same, the pretty girls..make them the nest..
               C
then they fly away.
 
CHORUS:
C               G              C
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree.
C                G                  C
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
 
#3.
F                C
Better fly away, in the sky away.
G                   C
Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon.
F                     C
Black on yellow, you, like banana, too.
G                       C
They might pick you someday.
 
#4.
C                  F            G                 C
Wish that I were a yellow bird..I'd fly away with you.
C              F                G
But I am not a yellow bird..so, here I sit, nothing 
        C
else to do.
 
OUTRO:
C
Yellow bird..yellow bird..yellow bird..
 
yellow bird..yellow bird..(Fade.)
 
 
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
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