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

[Chorus]
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 lucky than me

[Verse 1]
I also had a pretty girl
She's not with me today
They're all the same, the pretty girls
Take tenderness, then they fly away

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

[Chorus]
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
They might pick you someday
[Verse 2]
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

[Outro]
Yellow bird
Yellow bird
Yellow bird