Key: D
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A7
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Yellow bird, up high in banana tree
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Fº
D
A7
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D7
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me
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G/F#
Em7
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D7M
D6
Did your lady friend leave the nest again
A7
Em7
A7
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D7M
D7
That is very sad, makes me feel so bad
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G/F#
Em7
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F#m
Bm7
You can fly away, in the sky away
A7
Em7
A7
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You're more lucky than me
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D7
G
Em7
A7
Em7
Gº
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I also have a pretty girl she's not with me today
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D7
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Em7
They're all the same, the pretty girls
A7
Gº
A7
A7(13)
A7
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They tend the nest, then they fly away
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A7
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Yellow bird, up high in banana tree
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Fº
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A7
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D7
Yel - low bird, you sit all alone like me
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G/F#
Em7
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D7M
D6
Better fly away, in the sky away
A7
Em7
A7
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D7M
D7
Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon
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G/F#
Em7
D
D7M
D6
Black and yellow you, like banana too
A7
A7(13)
A7
D
They might pick you some day
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D7
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Em7
A7
Em7
Gº
D
Wish that I were a yellow bird I fly away with you
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D7
G
Em7
But I am not a yellow bird
A7
Gº
A7
A7(13)
A7
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So here I sit, nothing else to do
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Fº
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Fº
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Fº
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Yellow bird, yellow bird, yellow bird