Yellowbird, up high in banana tree Yellowbird, 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 lucky than me 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 Yellowbird, up high in banana tree Yellowbird, 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 They might pick you someday Wish that I were a yellowbird I'd fly away with you But I am not a yellowbird So here I sit, nothing else to do Yellowbird, yellowbird, yellowbird