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, make me feel so bad. 
You can fly away, in the sky away. 
You more lucky than me! 

I also have a pretty gal, 
She not with me today. 
They all the same, the pretty gal, 
Make them the nest, then they fly away. 

Yellow bird, up high in banana tree. 
Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me. 
Better fly away in the sky away. 
Picker coming soon, pick from night to noon. 
Black and yellow you, like banana too. 
They might pick you some day! 

Wish that I was a yellow bird, 
I fly away with you. 
But I am not a yellow bird, 
So here I sit, nothing else to do.