yellow bird up high in banana tree yellow bird you sit all alone like me did your lady friend leave the 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 those pretty girls take tenderness then they fly away yellow bird yellow bird did your lady friend leave the 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 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 i can do yellow bird yellow bird