Yellow bird, up high in the banana tree
Yellow bird, 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

Yellow bird, up high in the banana tree
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me

Let her fly away, in the sky away
Pick a town and soon take from night to noon
Like a yellow you like a banana, too
They might pick you someday

Wish that I were a yellow bird
I'd fly away with you
But I'm not a yellow bird
So here I sit nothing else to do
Yellow bird, yellow bird, yellow bird