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