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Yellow Bird

Words by Marilyn Keith and Alan Bergman, Music by Norman Luboff - 1957

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F         Fdim	F         Fdim	Gm7      C7	F
F         Fdim	F         Fdim	Gm7      C7	F
Bb6	F	C7	F
Bb6	F	C7	F
F	Gm7	C7	F
F	Gm7	C7	Gm7        C7
F	-      (repeat all)	|

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Yellow Bird, up high in banana tree.
Yellow Bird, you sit all alone like me.
Did your lady friend leave de nest again?  Dat is very sad, make me feel so bad.
You can fly away, in the sky away.  You more lucky dan me!
I also have a pretty gal,  She not with me today.
Dey all de same, de pretty gal,  Make dem de nest, dem de fly away.

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Listen to the Brothers Four perform "Yellow Bird" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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