Another song from our concert, "Songs of African America" at South Yarra Senior Centre in Fawkner Park.
This song began as "Choucoune", a Haitian song composed by Michel Mauleart Monton in 1883 to lyrics from a famous poem by Oswald Durand.
When calypso music became popular in the United States in the mid-1950s, the melody of "Choucoune" was adapted by Norman Luboff and new English lyrics were written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The only connection with the original lyrics is that the words "ti zwazo" (little birds) were part of the chorus.
The song first appeared on the Norman Luboff Choir's "Calypso Holiday" album in 1957 and was later the title track on albums by the Mills Brothers, Roger Williams and Lawrence Welk. It was also sung by Harry Belafonte, which is the first rendition I heard.
I first uploaded this song to KZitem in 2007: • 66. Yellow Bird (Tradi...
Lyrics and chords:
.. E ................... B7 .................... E
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree
........................... B7 ...................... E
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
A .............................. E
Did your lady friend leave de nest again?
........... B7........................... E
Dat is very sad, make me feel so bad.
A ......................... E
You can fly away, in de sky away,
B7 .............................. E
You more lucky dan me.
.............................. B7
I also had a pretty gal.
................................. E
She not with me today
.................................. B7
Dey all de same de pretty gal;
................................................ E
Make dem de nest, den dey fly away!
Yellow bird, up high in banana tree
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me.
Better fly away, in de sky away,
Picker comin' soon, pick from night to noon.
Black and yellow you, like banana too;
Dey might pick you some day!
Wish dat I was a yellow bird.
I fly away with you
But I am not a yellow bird
So here I sit; nothin' else to do.
Yellow bird. Yellow bird ...
A playlist of my children's songs is here: kzitem.info_play_list...
I am now posting lyrics to the information panels on all my videos. Any that are too long to post in full will be found on my website: raymondsfolkpage.wordpress.com
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